The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.