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

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American author 1947

Ralph Smart

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

Edith Hamilton book Mythology

Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

“Those who know their minds do not know their hearts.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Tous ceux qui connaissent leur esprit ne connaissent pas leur coeur.
Maxim 103.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)
Context: But the fact that we can stand here today, along the fault line where a city was divided, speaks to an eternal truth: No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart.

“What does cause depression of spirits? Heavy head and heavy heart, and no sufficient reason for either, that I know of.”

Lucy Larcom (1824–1893) American teacher, poet, author

Journal entry (2 March 1861), Ch. 5 : The Beginning of the War.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
Context: What does cause depression of spirits? Heavy head and heavy heart, and no sufficient reason for either, that I know of. I am out of doors every day, and have nothing unusual to trouble me; yet every interval of thought is clouded; there is no rebound, no rejoicing as it is my nature to rejoice, and as all things teach me to do. We are strange phenomena to ourselves, when we will stop to gaze at ourselves; but that I do not believe in; there are pleasanter subjects, and self is a mere speck on the great horizon of life.