“‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.”

“To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

“The basic problem with the world today is the unbalance between the male and female aspects, the unbalance between our inner and outer world, the unbalance between knowledge and wisdom, the unbalance between intellect and intuition and the unbalance between activity and rest.”

“Intellect is not wisdom.”

“The imaginative faculty in the soul or the mutakhayyilah is by nature crooked; it is capable of imagining things that are not real. Which is why it needs to be guided by Revelation, and evaluated against those who have obtained Aqal Mustafad or acquired intellect, whose intellect is always in the direction of the Alam Malakut, and in constant communication with God.”

“What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites.”