100 Quotes About Intellectualism

Pure intellect devoid of emotions and ethics is dangerous.

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.

[...] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.

Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!

Intention directs perception

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.