It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.
Your mind can grasp intellectual ideas, but it is in the FEELING where the transformation takes place.
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.
We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard t...
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.
I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
