James Patterson Quotes

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

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

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

Emotions are the curse of logic.

I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings.

If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

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

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.