Laurence Sterne Quotes

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Without our emotions, we can't make smart decisions.

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

First with the head, then with the heart.

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

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.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

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.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

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