Passion Quotes

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html

Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Rose Dorothy Franken

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

John Milton

He who feels no compassion will become insane.

Hasidic Saying

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitze

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Paul Johannes Tillich

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

Never underestimate the power of passion.

Eve Sawye

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Marquis de Sade

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

Matt Groening

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.

La Rochefoucauld

Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffe

Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.

Blessing Irish

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Ivan Pavlov