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Quotations Emotion - Reason

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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Aeschylus, 525-456 BCE, Greek, Poet

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Alan Moore, , ,

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura, 1925-, Canadian, Psychologist

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German American, Physicist

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German American, Physicist

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German American, Physicist

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German American, Physicist

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behaviour therapist.
Albert Ellis, 1913, American, Psychologist

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, , ,

Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain, 1818-1903, Scottish, Philosopher

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope, , ,

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English, Poet

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
Alfred Edward Housman, 1859-1936, English, Poet

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, American, Author

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French, Author

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
Andrew Bernstein, , American, Philosopher

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919, Scotish American, Industrialist and Businessman

Anger is a natural response when something you value is taken away from you. You may feel alone, isolated or not understood.
Anne Grant, 1755 - 1838, Scottish, Poet

Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900 - 1944, French, Writer and Aviator

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