Dennis Lindley Quotes

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

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

Sentiment inspires me no less than reason.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

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

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

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

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

Heart and head are contrary historians.