Wisdom Quotations

Feelings

Albert Einstein:
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

David Borenstein:
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

George Eliot:
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Helen Keller:
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

Pearl S. Buck:
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Rachel Carson:
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

Virginia Woolf:
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.