re: #294 Sharmuta

OTOH…

One of the principal lessons of our tragic century, which has seen so many millions of innocent lives sacrificed in schemes to improve the lot of humanity, is- beware intellectuals. Not merely should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should be also be objects of particular scorn when they seek to offer collective advice.
—Paul Johnson

There is nothing so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
—Don Herold

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.
—Gerald Brenan

Middle-class intellectuals are a little too inclined to resent poorer people acquiring for the first time material possessions, and especially luxuries, of a kind they themselves have always taken for granted.
—Paul Johnson