Cass Sunstein Quotes

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

We [Nazis] think with our blood.

Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

I never overthink or overanalyze anything.

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

Emotions are the curse of logic.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.