Willard Gaylin Quotes

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Of course our feelings matter. But emotional decisions are usually not the best ones. On the other hand, your emotions can affect your decisions whether you like it or not because the effects can occur on the unconscious level.

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

People and nations act on the basis of what they feel rather than what is real.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

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

Emotions have no I.Q.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.

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.

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

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 should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray.

But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.