Quotes about Heart
Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.
— Thomas a Kempis
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
— Mark Twain
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
— Mark Twain
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
— Mark Twain
A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
— Mark Twain
A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.
— Mark Twain
His grandeurs were stricken valueless: they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags. The procession moved on, and still on, through ever augmenting splendours and ever augmenting tempests of welcome; but to Tom Canty they were as if they had not been. He neither saw nor heard. Royalty had lost its grace and sweetness; its pomps were become a reproach. Remorse was eating his heart out. He said, "Would God I were free of my captivity!
— Mark Twain
Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that. So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart.
— Mark Twain
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
— Mark Twain
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.