Feelings Quotes

Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

William Wordsworth

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

Dale Carnegie

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - - The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.

Virginia Sati

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Audre Lorde

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

John Wooden

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

C. H. Parkhurst

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

James Earl Jones

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

R. W. Alge

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

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

David Borenstein

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beeche

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Ovid

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.

Bronwyn Davies

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spence

My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers