David Brooks Quotes

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Part of growing up is learning to live with your emotions; today’s shortcut is to believe whatever your feelings are, they’re justified.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Emotions have no I.Q.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.