Passion Quotes

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.

John Wesley

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Garrison Keillor

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Amiel

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

George Santayana

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Federico Fellini

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The law is reason free from passion

Aristotle

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D.H. Lawrence

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

Leonardo da Vinci

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.

Blaise Pascal

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Proverb