Charlotte Bronte:
Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Susanna K. Langer:
The wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

Audre Lorde:
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Marya Mannes:
You cannot know what you do not feel.

Amelia E. Barr:
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Ntozake Shange:
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectful.

George Eliot:
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Anais Nin:
Atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

May Sarton:
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Esther Hautzig:
Feelings are untidy.

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