Ted Dekker Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

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

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

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

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

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.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.