Eoin Colfer Quotes

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

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

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

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

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

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

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.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

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

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks, we are a divided nation. Not between Democrats or Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, or tops and bottoms. No, we are divided by those who think with their head, and those who know with their heart.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.