William C. Davis Quotes

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

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Sentiment inspires me no less than reason.

It is what men think that determines how they act

A feeling is not a fact.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.

Action often precedes the feeling.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Perception is reality.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.