John Knowles Quotes

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Feelings don't lie.

What I say is how I feel.

I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.