Truth Quote by Christopher Risso-gill

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can…

— Peter Cundill

“Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.”

— Phil Cooke

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

— Massimo Vignelli

“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual…

— Santosh Kalwar

“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."---Irrational Exuberance”

— Robert J. Shiller

“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.”

— Amit Kalantri

The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance…

— Richard Hofstadter

“I do my intellectual work within myself, and once with other people, it's more or less irrelevant to me that they're intelligent, as long…

— Marcel Proust

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

— Richard Reeves

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

— Robert Wilson