Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do… — Woodrow Wilson
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force,… — Peter Prange
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. — Benjamin Disraeli
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury,… — Michel de Montaigne
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself. — William Hazlitt
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and… — James Joyce
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of… — Thomas Carlyle
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through… — Alexander Pope
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh
O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine! — Helen Hunt Jackson
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such… — John Quincy Adams
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature… — Bernard Berenson
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust... — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power… — Vilfredo Pareto
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of… — William Warburton
Martial music has sudden and strongly marked transitions from one note to another which that style of music requires; while in that which is intended… — Joshua Reynolds
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest… — David Hume
Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended… — Joshua Reynolds

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