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View Quote As the saints and prophets were often forced to practise long vigils and fastings and prayers before their ecstasies would fall upon them and their visions would appear, so Virtue in its purest and most exalted form can only be acquired by means of severe and long continued culture of the mind. Persons with feeble and untrained intellects may live according to their conscience; but the conscience itself will be defective. … To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.

View Quote William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (1872), p. 540.

View Quote Every thing connected with intellect is permanent.

View Quote William Roscoe, reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 353.

View Quote The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.

View Quote Carlo Rubbia. The Brazilian magazine Veja asked Carlo Rubbia, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, “Do you believe in God?; reported in Evolution Is Not a Fact, Awake! magazine, 1998, 8/8.

View Quote So far as I can remember, there's not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

View Quote Bertrand Russell, cited in Jonathan Miller. (2004). A Brief History of Disbelief [TV-Series]. BBC Four.