Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
Mark TwainRead
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The heart operates independently of logic, often leading to feelings and desires that the mind rejects.
This quote by Mark Twain suggests that human emotions and feelings are not always governed by reason or logic. The heart, representing our emotions, has its own rules and can lead us to care for or desire things that our rational mind may find unworthy or unacceptable. In this sense, it emphasizes the complexity of human nature, where emotion can often override intellect.
Themes
HeartReasonEmotionsIntellectFeelings
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a discussion about emotional decision-making versus rational thought.
More from Mark Twain
All quotes βThe easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.
Mark TwainRead
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark TwainRead
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark TwainRead
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Mark TwainRead
Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.
Mark TwainRead
Similar quotes
Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
Julian Of NorwichRead
When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.
Russell M. NelsonRead
But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.
Edna St. Vincent MillayRead
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.
Charles StanleyRead
For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.
William TyndaleRead
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
Vita Sackville-WestRead