Ali Smith Quotes

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

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

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

My heart Has a Mind of Its Own.

Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

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.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.” Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!"