“A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.” IfsBornEvidenceEarsMusicalIntellectSeedsSophistication Book:Only One Year Source: Only One Year
“From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.” WholeFactsUniverseCommonEvidenceScaryIntellectOrderly Author:Philip Johnson
“The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.” HumansHighestEvidenceIntellectHistorianImaginative Author:G. M. Trevelyan
“The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to offer. At the same time, this point of view redefines faith as a knowledge that is attained not only by intellectual means, but also through the rigorous development of the emotional side of the human psyche. Such emotional knowledge is unknown to the isolated intellect and has therefore been mistakenly labeled as "irrational."” MeanEmotionalIntellectualEvidenceIntellectPoint Of ViewIrrationalInner Self Author:Jacob Needleman
“There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.” PeopleWorldWellsLittlesBookSelfReasonUseTodayFacesFormViewsSupportEmotionalTrumpAuthorityIntellectualEvidenceRedIntellectContraryObjectivesCardsWell BeingAppealsSpiralsWorld ViewClutchRosaryEmotional Well Being Author:Bill Whittle