1,266 Quotes About Emotion

A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.(Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer)

Emotions in my opinion are not something we should act on rather they are cryptic messages that we need to understand.

I feel as though I can chew up nails and spit out a barbed wire fence.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process.

Please yourself, you will feel better.

Emotions are like water, turning opaque when disturbed, yet transparent when still. As mindfulness calms our emotions, we can peer into their depths and see our overshadowing spiritual values reflected on the surface.