Emotional Reasoning Quotes

It is not merely that Johnny can't read, or even that Johnny can't think. Johnny doesn't know what thinking is, because thinking is so often confused with feeling. … The phrase ‘I feel’ is often used by American students to introduce a conclusion, rather than say ‘I think,’ or ‘I know,’ much less ‘I conclude.’ Unfortunately, ‘I feel’ is often the most accurate term…

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education and emphasis on how people 'feel' have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our adversaries who have practised upon it with no small benefit to their cause. For at the very moment they are eulogizing the reason of men & professing to appeal only to that faculty, they are courting the strongest & most active passion of the human heart - VANITY!

Reason is the slave of passion.

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

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 have to be logical - I'm a mother.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

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.

Throw in the towel right off the bat. Women argue in ways that aren't rational to men.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.

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.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.