James Lovelock Quotes

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

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Emotions have no I.Q.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

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

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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.

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States - in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

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

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

I'm impervious to logic.

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.