Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

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

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

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

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.

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

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed

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

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

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

Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.