Quotes about Emotional intelligence

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

We resist getting near the suffering of another partly out of our unwillingness to suffer ourselves.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbor's dead."

If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what they think of you, and you will think about them instead, you won't be shy.

Don't be irritated at people's smell or bad breath. What's the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they're going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can't they figure it out? Can't they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he'll listen, then you'll have solved the problem. Without anger.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Continually, and, if possible, in the case of every mental image, consider its nature, realize its emotional content, and judge it rationally.

Someone despises me. That's their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem. Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them. Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show off my own self-control, but in an honest, upright way.

Not to shrug off a friend's resentment—even unjustified resentment—but try to put things right.