Pierre Trudeau Quotes

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

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

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.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Quebec has no opinions, only emotions.

So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Levesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place

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

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

Italians think with their heads.

It's just important to try to keep a cool head and stay logical rather than emotional. But then again you have to keep that balance between not becoming too logical because you need to have that passion in order to play to 100% in the game.

I never overthink or overanalyze anything.

Intelligent decisions may fail you but one's instincts cannot.

I try to be very smart and use wisdom about everything.

You cannot build public policies on sentiment, on panic and fear.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.