Piet Mondrian Quotes

It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

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

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

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

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

How did they know?.

Common sense is often underrated.

It's good to be intuitive.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

He also knows the importance of intuition.