Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

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

Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

Faith is not in your head. Faith is in your heart. Sometimes you have to turn your mind off and listen to your heart.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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

I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

When we love there is no reason why.

The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.

Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.