Owen Wilson Quotes

What is genius or courage without a heart?

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

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

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like this is that you can become sort of self-obsessed. There's so much praise being given to you - there's a real threat of exalting the ego.

It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.

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

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.