“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
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