Age Quote by Margaret Gatty

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as…

— Anonymous

“According to esoteric teachings power flows with thought and what we think about is what we actually value with our personal power. When you…

— Shaeri Richards

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

— Gary Zukav

As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to…

— James McCosh

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Spiritual age is determined by the acts which make the mornings and evenings of the soul, and not by the motions of the physical…

— Henry James

The intellect must be different from the soul.

— Peter Adamson

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

— Brian Jacques

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart…

— James Russell Lowell