Fulton Oursler Quotes

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.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.

If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

The heart is the best logician.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

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

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?' It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.