Emotional Judgment Quotes

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

I've played games where I thought I played one of my better games, and statistically, there's nothing there, and vice versa. I've never based how I feel about my performance on stats.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

History is not the Province of the Ladies ... Little Passions and Prejudices, want of information, false information, want of Experience, erroneous Judgment, and frequent partiality are among the Faults.

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

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.

In Quebec, people are moved too often by passion and too little by intelligence.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is their way. And you will even run into some people who should be run into by rhinos because they actually don't want to see you get over your tragedy at all; grief is a spectator sport for them.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

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