Quotes about Intellect

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

I always felt like my value was much more in my intellect than it was in my appearance, and so that's what I spent time cultivating. And some of that I get from my mother, some of that comes from the schools that I went to, and some of that comes from probably insecurity.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

So long, therefore, as the object of the mystic's contemplation is amenable to thought, is something which he can "know," he may be quite sure that it is not the Absolute; but only a partial image or symbol of the Absolute. To find that final Reality, he must enter into the "cloud of unknowing"--must pass beyond the plane on which the intellect can work. "When I say darkness," says the same great mystic, "I mean thereby a lack of knowing....

Prayer, then, begins by an intellectual adjustment.

Many evidences and arguments suggest God's existence, yet the plain truth is that God cannot be proved by intellectual arguments alone. If the human mind could fully prove God, He would be no greater than the mind that proves Him!

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today. False teachers use high-sounding words that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

As we grow and go forward, our master Creator may be wooing you instinctively into a place where your intellect can flourish and your heart can rest.

Don't come to Jesus and try to be intellectually stimulating to Him. There's nothing you could say that would cause Him to respond, "Wow, that's a neat insight!" You may as well abort all attempts to be cerebral with Jesus; He simply doesn't try to engage us at that level. Just come and love Him. He's looking for heartfelt sincerity, for visceral passion, for authentic relationship.

Strange, then, is the blindness of the intellect, which does not consider that which it sees first and without which it can know nothing.

I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.