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It is wisdom to believe the heart.~ George Santayana
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. ~ James Russell Lowell
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. ~ Joseph Addison
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.~ Don Marquis
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.
Calculation never made a hero.~ John Henry Newman
Calculation never made a hero.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.~ Blaise Pascal
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.~ Blaise Pascal
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.