Conrad Aiken Quotes

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

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

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.