Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain but simply points the way.
Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever is dumb.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Think sideways!
This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect.
Though one__ occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
Do not let your intellect steer you away from what your eyes have seen. Neither should you let it deny what your higher powers have perceived.
Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.
A superior brain without the saving essence of godliness may turn against the human race and drench the world in blood, or worse, it may loose ideas into the earth which will continue to curse mankind for centuries after it has turned to dust again.
Pure intellect _ that is mental _ individualism. But the real knowledge _ To know that I am all these. In such a manner every human being is so. What is this divine intellect? It is happening spontaneously in Nature and we are merely the seers. We cannot conceive this phenomenon.
Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness of our character and the subjectivity of our intellect. If each person is the final arbiter of right and wrong, then __ight_ for him or her will be what he or she desires, regardless of its consequences for the other inhabitants of Earth.
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.
Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.
Your intuition and your intellect should be working together_ making love. That__ how it works best.
Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.