Sentiments Quotes · Page 7

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I must have confessed that the feelings, emotions and sentiments in my words are beyond my understanding.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

— Suzanne Curchod

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

— Henry Ward Beecher

But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A mother is a blend of strength and survivorship, experience and insight, fancy and reflection.

— Anonymous

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

— George Eliot

Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from…

— Robert B. Leighton

The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender…

— David Hume

The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we…

— Richard Mitchell

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already…

— Vivek Shraya

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings…

— Alfred de Vigny

To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign…

— Alexander Hamilton

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a…

— Bret Easton Ellis

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of…

— David Hume

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined…

— James Burnham

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of…

— George Inness

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be…

— Samuel Johnson

To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors…

— William Gilmore Simms

The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA…

— Rick Strassman

How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be…

— David Hume

A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly…

— Lord Chesterfield

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.

— El-P

There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

— Renata Adler

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

— Louisa May Alcott

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

— Bertrand Russell

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

— Leonard Maltin

“When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.”

— Agatha Christie

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.

— Tim LaHaye

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the…

— Isaac Watts

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

— David Hume

Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

— Sarah Dessen

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

— Anonymous

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

— Caspar David Friedrich