Polly Adler Quotes

The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

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.

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

I've never gone wrong trusting my gut.

I think your first gut feeling is the correct feeling.

If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is merely to probe what your gut is telling you. So the next time a friend laments that she cannot decide between two options, tell her the easiest way to solve her problem: flip a coin. She should specify which option belongs to heads and which to tails, and then let the coin fly. The important part is to assess her gut feeling after the coin lands. If she feels a subtle sense of relief at being "told" what to do by the coin, that's the right choice for her.