Emotion Quote by Ayn Rand

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

— Marco Bizzarri

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present…

— Daniel Goleman

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

— Daniel Goleman

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

— Ayn Rand

“No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“But since the work of man's mind is not automatic, his values, like all his premises, are product either of his thinking or of…

— Ayn Rand

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.

— Jim Rohn

Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches,…

— Fred Edwords

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

— Gary Chapman

The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it…

— Jeremy Narby

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

— Jonathan Haidt