152 quotes found
“I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.”
“Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.”
“Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.”
“The shrewd guess the fertile hypothesis the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.”
“A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.”
“Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
“Systems die instincts remain.”
“Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.”
“Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.”
“When a man begins to reason he ceases to feel.”
“The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousness and when I get a response there then I accept.”
“The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.”
“Command by instinct is swifter subtler deeper more accurate more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.”
“Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.”
“I follow my heart for I can trust it.”
“Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.”
“In making our decisions we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us.”
“To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.”
“What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.”
“Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.”
