Theodore Roethke Quotes

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

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

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

A feeling is not a fact.

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.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Passions aren't something you have to think about, they're something you know and feel.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason