Don't let your intellect trump your faith!

“Do not let your intellect steer you away from what your eyes have seen. Neither should you let it deny what your higher powers…

— Ashavan

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

— D.T. Suzuki

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me…

— Isabel Allende

The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the…

— George Carlin

Intellect in the practice room or studio gives you the tools to use your heart on stage.

— Manny Laureano

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is…

— Lucretius

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a…

— Leora Tanenbaum

The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the…

— George MacDonald

... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There are many different kinds of knowledge. The way of the heart and spirit can guide us in a more trustworthy way than the…

— Lakota Sioux Buck Ghosthorse

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and…

— Raymond Cattell

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius…

— Matshona Dhliwayo