Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

Feel deeply to think clearly.

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.

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

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

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

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.

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

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.