Heart Quotes

Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart.

John Adams

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Polly (Pearl) Adler

A man's heart changes his countenance, either for good or for evil.

Apocrypha - Ecclesiasticus 13:25

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

Djuna Barnes

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Sebastien - Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Lord Chesterfield

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Euripedes

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Goethe

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Thomas a Kempis

And if thy heart be straight with God, then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine, for there is no creature so little or so vile, but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

Thomas a Kempis

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Yoshida Kenko

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luther

The heart has its reason which reason does not know.

Blaise Pascal

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

Sa'di

It is only with the heart that one can see right; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau