The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You may know God, but not comprehend Him.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.