Character Quote by John Jay Chapman

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

— Anonymous

“The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.”

— Raheel Farooq

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul,…

— Criss Jami

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in literary criticism’s…

— Sianne Ngai

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

— William James

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

— Chip Conley

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

— Jody Williams

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to…

— William James

“It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it.”

— Wendy Walker