“The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.”
Source: The Swan Thieves
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“Revolutions never go backward.”
Address delivered before the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Music Hall, Boston, February 17, 1861, published in Speeches, Letters and Lectures by Wendell Phillips https://archive.org/details/speecheslectures7056phil (1884), p. 380.
1860s
“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.”
The Now of Pooh.
Source: The Tao of Pooh (1982)
Context: Abstract cleverness of the mind only separates the thinker from the world of reality, and that world, the Forest of Real Life, is in a desperate condition now because of too many who think too much and care too little. In spite of what many minds have thought themselves into believing, that mistake cannot continue for much longer if everything is going to survive. The one chance we have to avoid certain disaster is to change our approach, and learn to value wisdom and contentment. These are things that are being searched for anyway, through Knowledge and Cleverness, but they do not come from Knowledge and Cleverness. They never have, and they never will. We can no longer afford to look so desperately hard for something in the wrong way and in the wrong place. If Knowledge and Cleverness are allowed to go on wrecking things, they will before much longer destroy all life on this earth as we know it, and what little may temporarily survive will not be worth looking at, even if it were possible for us to do so.
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards, Lonerism (2012).

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
"A Defence of Heraldry"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

“No image is there, to no metal is the divine form entrusted, in hearts and minds does the goddess delight to dwell.”
Nulla autem effigies, nulli commissa metallo
forma dei: mentes habitare et pectora gaudet.
Source: Thebaid, Book XII, Line 493 (tr. J. H. Mozley)

“The mind knows only what lies near the heart.”
Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

“When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet”
"Electioneering"
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)

“Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward.”
Bert Randolph Sugarhttp://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016439.html
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