Emotions Quotes
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.Mary Asto
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.Marya Mannes
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.Vauvenargues
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.Ansel Adams
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.Sir Thomas More
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.David Borenstein
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.Marilyn Ferguson
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.Leon Botstein
What was significant about the laughter... was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person... a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.Norman Cousins
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.Peggy Noonan
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.Lord Thomas Dewa
Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.John Kenneth Galbraith
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.Jeanne Moreau
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...Pablo Picasso
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.Bertrand Russell
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.John Dewey
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.Don Hays
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.George S. Arundale
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.Roge
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.Robert Henri
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.Bertrand Russell
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.Oscar Wilde
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.Geoffrey Parsons
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.John Dewey
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.Ingrid Bergman
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.Sun Bea
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.Lester Bangs
