Intellect Limitation Quotes

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin.