“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”

Albert Einstein, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go

“brilliant, but not correct.”

Quoted in Horace Porter Campaigning with Grant as “what Cuvier said of the French Academy’s definition of a crab”.

“In one of the famous episodes of both history and historiography, Dexippus rallied 2,000 Athenians to fight the Heruli, but the city had already fallen…”

Edward Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

“It’s easy to be brilliant if you are not bothered about being right.”

“Hector McNeil (1907-55)” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Feb. 19, 2007

“As they say on the street, there is smart smart and then there is dumb smart.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things October 2001

“In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk…”

Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution

“The river of human nonsense flows on forever.”

G.K. Chesterton, “A Sermon on Inns,” in The Flying Inn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #1 (September 2003)