Anna Jameson Quotes

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I can access emotions very easily.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

A second-class intellect—but a first-class temperament!

This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.