Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
As quoted in Diccionario privado de Jorge Luis Borges (1979) edited by Blas Matamoro
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