Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

Me, feeling. What a concept.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

A feeling is not a fact.

People forget that everyone has feelings, regardless of their career choice.

I'm a sensitive person.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

Being sensitive means caring for your own feelings as well as those of others.

I'm interested in roles that are human, that have some sort of empathic quality.

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

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

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment.

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

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.