The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

القلب يعرف أكثر مما يتصور العقل

The mind discerns and decides, and the heart vetoes. It is a very inefficient system.

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

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

The mystic perceives with his heart what the mind knows to be true... but cannot prove

In general, the heart seems to have a more reliable memory for what benefits the psyche than does the head, which has a rather unhealthy tendeny to lead an 'abstract' existence, and easily forgets that its consciousness is snuffed out the moment the heart fails its duty.

My brain said no.

But my heart!

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Normally and primordially, human intelligence realizes a perfect equilibrium between the intelligence of the brain and that of the heart: the first is the rational capacity with the various skills connected to it; the second is intellectual or spiritual intuition, or in other words it is the eschatological realism that permits one to choose the saving truth even without any mental speculation. Cardiac intelligence, even when reduced to its minimum, is always right; it is from this that faith is derived when it is profound and unshakeable, and such is the intelligence of a great number of saints.

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.