Alfred, Lord Tennyson on emotion

‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Samuel Adams1722–1803Letter to Samuel Cooper (30 April 1776)

I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Contarini Fleming (1832), Part 1, Chapter 13