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Half our mistakes...
Vendor: WRITERS
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
Source: In The World's Best Thoughts on Success & Failure, compiled by Eugene Raudsepp, 1981.
-- John Churton Collins, (Mar 26 1848-1908), English literary critic; He was a journalist, essayist and lecturer. His first book was a study of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1874), and later he edited various classical English writers, and published volumes on Bolingbroke and Voltaire in England (1886), a Study of English Literature (1891), a study of Dean Swift (1893), Essays and Studies (1895), Ephemera Critica (1901), Essays in Poetry and Criticism (1905), and Rousseau and Voltaire (1908), his original essays being sharply controversial in tone, but full of knowledge.