Samuel Adams Quotes

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

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

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

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

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

I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by Shakespeare than they are by the experience of our own lives.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."