Mark Twain Quotes

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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

Logic is no answer to passion.

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

In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.

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

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

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

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

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

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

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.