“Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.”
Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar
“The heart is wiser than the intellect.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 616.
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