There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied on to do,
and that is to contradict other philosophers.

        --William James

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

Geniuses do not think more than other people.  They think
less.
        --Len Cool

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

        --Don Herold

The most terrible of all intellectual weapons ever wielded by
man was the mockery of Voltaire.
        --Tallyrand