Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Emotions

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

If one uses one’s intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

The evidence of the emotions, save in cases where it has strong objective support, is really no evidence at all, for every recognizable emotion has its opposite, and if one points one way then another points the other way. Thus the familiar argument that there is an instinctive desire for immortality, and that this desire proves it to be a fact, becomes puerile when it is recalled that there is also a powerful and widespread fear of annihilation, and that this fear, on the same principle proves that there is nothing beyond the grave. Such childish proofs are typically theological, and they remain theological even when they are adduced by men who like to flatter themselves by believing that they are scientific gents…
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) American Catholic Religious Leader, Theologian

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
Carl Sagan (1934–96) American Astronomer

You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.
Margaret Drabble (b.1939) English Novelist, Biographer, Critic, Short Story Writer

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

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 (1928–2017) French Stage, Screen Actor, Singer

A clear understanding of a negative emotion dismisses it .
Vernon Howard (1918–92) American Spiritual Teacher, Philosopher

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973) Irish Novelist, Short-story Writer

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
Robert Browning (1812–89) English Poet

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.
Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) American Psychotherapist

The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor

Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work… I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn’t make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American Business Academic, Author

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher

Swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.
Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet

Systems die; instincts remain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author

The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

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 A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
Anatole France (1844–1924) French Novelist

Our ideas are here today and gone tomorrow, whereas our feelings are always with us, and we recognize those who feel like us, and at once, by a sort of instinct.
George Moore (1852–1933) Irish Writer

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts—the less you know the hotter you get.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

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