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bobstallone
I doubt have any confidence at all, but instead just days where I'm less doubtful than normal.
AwesomeName
More about that quote: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/04/self-doubt/
HeresSomeMoneyGoSeeAStarWar
ALWAYS up vote Bukowski
bobbynixon
But which is which?
pangyre
The problem with Bukowski here is plagiarism. Yeats said it first and better.
obviouslyrob
The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.
Bearmandog
The problem with some people is that they exist.
addi09
That's because we all make mistakes and smart people remember them and learn dumb people don't
openingsalvo
And we all think we are the intelligent ones.
TheMysteriousBanana
But I'm really intelligent and full of confidence... wait... that means... I'm actually ... .... OH MY GOD NOOOOOoooooo!
DirtPuppet
I thought it was Bertrand Russel who said that.
TheSeaSaidSwim
Listen to ep 'In defense of ignorance' on This American Life. There's some scientific support for this statement.
snorch1
I know he's a pretty good read but god, who'd want to be such an asshole?
ShotsoMilk
He was probably one of the most interesting poets. Predicted the state things would be long after his death
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lernaean
if someone makes bad choices then they're not intelligent...
RommieCommieKazi
Sadly not true. One bad decision doesn't make a person any less intelligent. Like with everything, it's more complicated than that.
Bearmandog
The problem with some people is that they exist.
AndrewSFerguson
Congrats to me for being the smartest person in the world. Though on second thought, I'm not so sure.
reddocs
I'd like a smoothie too , please
dannne
The whole movie "idiocracy" is based on this quote.
goboltz
"Ignorance is Bliss"
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FriedChihuahua
This is a quote of Bertrand Russell, not Bukowski.
Tremolo333
And the Internet is full of citations.
pronoun
mfw I'm both stupid and full of doubt.
daelythm
A very useless statement if you believe it.
valvarsson
OP, do you feel confident that's true?
VenserArtifice
Not OP, but here's my view on this: I doubt things are so simple.
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merdock379
This isn't saying smart people doubt everything.
TheActualBruceWayne
Like those stupid people who think the world is round
merdock379
This isn't saying smart people doubt everything.
ticktockbent
yeah, losers. Everyone knows the world is actually a bumpy ovoid, not a sphere.
TheActualBruceWayne
Bullshit. Everyone knows the world is carried by 4 elephants on a giant turtle
ticktockbent
We don't have time for your bullshit Pratchettist propaganda man. We're one of the egg worlds doomed to die in a great hatching.
TheActualBruceWayne
Our great Lord Turtle disagrees
ticktockbent
You mean Maturin? "See the Turtle of Enormous Girth" "On his shell he holds the Earth."
twentyfivehundred
I thought it was that everyone thinks themselves intelligent.
daelythm
It certainly is rhetoric for the masses. Everyone says the same thing about those they disagree with.
Somanyquestions
Intelligent people are usually self-aware enough to recognize when they don't know something.
bentwrenches
Intelligent people know what they don't know.
fleacollerindustry
Can't confirm. Source: am ridiculously dumb and don't know shit.
TheMrPendragon
Your acknowledgment of this fact shows that you have at least the intelligence to be self aware, which is in itself surprisingly rare.
dokpsy
My problem is constantly vocalizing the distrust in my self
Normalface
Or that inteligence is the primary request to power over an individual, or that it should be...
ikbenlike
There's a name for this but the stupid are too sure of their own intelligence while the smart doubt it
Vectorman2
Its called 'Smartentfrued' a German word from the classical rock era of human history (serca the 18th milenium)
breadedfishstrip
The dunning-kruger effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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