The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.
Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.