For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
