Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

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

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.