Jane Goodall Quotes

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving.

I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

What I say and what I'm really experiencing - those universes are very different.

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back.

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

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

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.