George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.

I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Feel deeply to think clearly.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

Me, feeling. What a concept.