We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
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 paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.
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