Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

What is genius or courage without a heart?

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

I didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

My characteristics [of Ideal Black Man.] aren't as specific. I'm more general. I'm more like, I have to be able to talk to him. You know, we have to have good communications. He has to be interested in the world. You know what I mean. Like interested in learning and adventurous and curious, 'cause that's what I am. He has to be passionate about something. And it would be nice if he had a job. It's not like he has to have an MBA.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?