Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
—Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar (1864–1930) Scottish Whisky Distiller
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Inventor
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that’s a good thing born from a bad thing.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
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
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.
—Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) American Psychotherapist
As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body.
—Nathaniel LeTonnerre
A clear understanding of a negative emotion dismisses it .
—Vernon Howard (1918–92) American Author, Philosopher
Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
In this and like communities public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed; consequently he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes and decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-born British Novelist
The heart is forever inexperienced.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
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
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
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
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
—Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69) German Philosopher, Composer
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the LUXURY of an emotion without paying for it.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
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
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
People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
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
To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments.
—Brian Koslow
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
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Indeed, excessive sensitiveness is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for it is to make more of our objects, and less of ourselves.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists—talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973) Irish Novelist, Short-story Writer
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