Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.

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

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.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Logic is no answer to passion.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

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

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

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

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

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

Love is the only rational act.

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.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

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