Aimee Bender Quotes

You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

The great of heart is a gift of god. He who obeys his belly, obeys the enemy

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

I overthink decisions when I should really trust my heart.

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

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.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.

If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

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.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

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

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.