William Cowper Quotes

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Reasonable people can make reasonable mistakes.

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

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

The fact that a man is driven back on feelings and instincts to justify an action or course of action which he has thought over and discussed, is good evidence that what he calls his feelings and instincts are at variance with his better judgment … and may therefore be worthless or dangerous guides in any wider matter involving the fate of his country or his fellow-countrymen.

Common sense is often underrated.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.