“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Related Quotes “Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.”— Roy Blount Jr. “Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don’t let me hear a word about the rest”— Alfred de Vigny “Intellect is not wisdom.”— Thomas Sowell