Ashley Montagu Quotes

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.

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

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.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

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.

Emotions have no I.Q.

The wise are wise only because they love.

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

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

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

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.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.