"...the believers must recognize the importance of intellectual
honesty and..."

...the believers must recognize the importance of intellectual honesty and
humility. In past dispensations many errors arose because the believers in
God's Revelation were over-anxious to encompass the Divine Message within
the framework of their limited understanding, to define doctrines where
definition was beyond their power, to explain mysteries which only the
wisdom and experience of a later age would make comprehensible, to argue
that something was true because it appeared desirable and necessary. Such
compromises with essential truth, such intellectual pride, we must
scrupulously avoid.

(27 May 1966, published in "Wellspring of Guidance: Messages 1963-1968"
(Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1976), pp. 87-88) [61]

62: "When studying at school or university Baha'i youth will often
find..."

When studying at school or university Baha'i youth will often find
themselves in the unusual and slightly embarrassing position of having a
more profound insight into a subject than their instructors. The Teachings
of Baha'u'llah throw light on so many aspects of human life and knowledge
that a Baha'i must learn, earlier than most, to weigh the information that
is given to him rather than to accept it blindly. A Baha'i has the
advantage of the divine Revelation for this Age, which shines like a
searchlight on so many problems that baffle modern thinkers; he must
therefore develop the ability to learn everything from those around him,
showing proper humility before his teachers, but always relating what he
hears to the Baha'i teachings, for they will enable him to sort out the
gold from the dross of human error.

(10 June 1966 to Baha'i Youth in every Land, published in "Wellspring of
Guidance: Messages 1963-1968", pp. 95-96) [62]

63: "The House of Justice agrees that it is most important for the
believers,..."

The House of Justice agrees that it is most important for the believers,
and especially those who hold positions of responsibility in the
Administrative Order, to react calmly and with tolerant and enquiring
minds to views which differ from their own, remembering that all Baha'is
are but students of the Faith, ever striving to understand the Teachings
more clearly and to apply them more faithfully, and none can claim to have
a perfect understanding of this Revelation. At the same time all
believers, and scholars in part