Richard Hofstadter Quotes

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

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

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

First with the head, then with the heart.