#intellect

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God. ↗

— John Piper

#god #intellect #mind #objectivity #truth

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. ↗

— David Hilbert

#concept #ever #greater #his #idea

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#inherit #instance #intellectual #musical #opera

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. ↗

— John Gresham Machen

#also #alternative #conservative #could #criticism

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#argument #collapsed #design #dover #intellectually

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#believed #faith #giants #great #history

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. ↗

— Hu Shih

#began #chinese #chinese people #contacts #country

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#because #came #class #curious #enjoying