Motives

You said in one of your lessons on faith that there is a person who will ask for forgiveness out of remorse and there is another who will do so out of intellectual understanding even in the absence of those feelings, and that his action is more noble because it cannot be said of him that he acts in order to feed his feelings.
My question is, can we also say that someone who asked for forgiveness out of an intellectual understanding that what he did was immoral live up to his values, even though their origin is cognitive and not emotional?

What do you think?