William James Quotes

To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

I'm not someone who calculates things.

Political activities are still suspended …. The population has always acted according to its feelings instead of its mind.

I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

If I were thinking straight, I'd take you home right now.

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

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