Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

Henry David Thoreau

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Henry David Thoreau

I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.

H. L. Mencken

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Jean Genet

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Trust your heart rather than your head.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Jill Tarter

Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Jessica Jackley

The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It's about what we do.

Jessica Hahn

I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.

Jerry Garcia

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

Jerry Falwell

We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.

Jeremy Brett

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Jeremy Clarkson

Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

Jennifer Ellison

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

Jeff Schweitzer

Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009.

Fernando Pessoa

The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

Fernando Pessoa

I know nothing and my heart aches

Fernando Pessoa

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Fernando Pessoa

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Felix Mendelssohn

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

Felix Adler

The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.