Lupe Fiasco Quotes

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

I'm very human.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

In my own personal career, I have felt almost the most difficult thing to deal with is someone who doesn't tell you what they are thinking.

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

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

I'm full of contradictions.

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.