Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

Passions aren't something you have to think about, they're something you know and feel.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.