“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Sweep: Volume 1
“Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.”
— Carl Sagan, book Cosmos
Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 284
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