Heart And Brain Quotes

• If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

  Van Morrison

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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  A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Heart, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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• trust your heart but use your head

  Julie Garwood

  Trust, Heart, Brain

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

  Alfred Adler

  Heart, Follow Your Heart, Brain

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• But for the unquiet heart and brain
  A use in measured language lies;
  The sad mechanic exercise
  Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Heart, Science

  "The Heart and the Brain". "Catholic world", Volume 1, Issue 5, August 1865.

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• Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 52), 1990.

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• And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

  Aristotle

  Heart, Views, Brain

  Aristotle, Arthur Leslie Peck (1961). “Parts of animals”, Loeb Classical Library

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  When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Heart, Exercise, Makeup

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Heart, Differences

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

  Leo Rosten

  Happiness, Happy, Heart

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• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

  Susannah Cahalan

  Beautiful, Brain, Neurons

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

  Aristotle

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, People, Brain

  "Gaudy Night".

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• A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Sacrifice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Communication, Knowledge, Brain

  Essays Bk 1 (transl. D. M. Frame)

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• ...For the unquiet heart and brain,
  A use in measured language lies.

  Alfred the Great

  Lying, Heart, Brain

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions.

  Glenn Cunningham

  Sports, Running, Lying

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  The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Heart, Recovery

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ch. 12 (1999). Ellipsis in the original.

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