“The mind knows only what lies near the heart.”

— Edith Hamilton , book Mythology

Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

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American teacher and writer 1867–1963

Ralph Smart

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

Stephen King (1947) American author

“I know she swore with raging mind,
Her kingdom only set apart,
There was no loss, by law of kind,
That could have gone so near her heart;
And this was chiefly all her pain:
"She could not make the like again."”

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) English Earl

"A Praise of his Love", line 19

“Only the free mind knows what Love is.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

Speech at the University of California, Berkley, as broadcast by Pacifica Radio (4 January 1969)
1960s

“Our minds and hearts are filled with other things than understanding of "what is". Love and mercy, kindliness and generosity do not cause enmity. When you love, you are very near truth.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

"Ninth Talk in Bombay, (14 March 1948) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=270&chid=4600&w=%22What+brings+understanding+is+love%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. BO48Q1, published in The Collected Works, Vol. IV, p. 200
1940s
Context: What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists. But we do not know how to look for it. Our minds and hearts are filled with other things than understanding of "what is". Love and mercy, kindliness and generosity do not cause enmity. When you love, you are very near truth. For, love makes for sensitivity, for vulnerability. That which is sensitive is capable of renewal. Then truth will come into being. It cannot come if your mind and heart are burdened, heavy with ignorance and animosity.