Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

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

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I am a really sensitive person.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

I am a sensitive person.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

I am a very sensitive person.

I'm a very sensitive person.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.