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Originally Posted by scottw
July 10, 2009
The Audacity of Conceit
By Victor Volsky
Intelligent idiots, smart fools, multi-degreed morons - lots of monikers could describe a category of individuals dismayingly prominent in the ruling elites of the West. They are the people so divorced from reality, so engrossed in bookish pursuits that - for all their undoubted intellectual accomplishments and often as a direct consequence thereof - they invariably end up with egg on their faces whenever they try to engage in practical activities.
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I like that.
Book learning is great, but unless tempered with experience and
wisdom it only offers a very small part of a person's intellect.