Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

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.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

Stupidity is not my strong suit.

As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.