Heart Quotes - Famous Writers

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ~ Charles Dickens

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Adams Keller

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important." ~ Edward Morgan Forster

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~ Washington Irving

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart. What jailer so inexorable as one's self? ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. ~ Henry Fielding

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or piece of prose he or she really loves...is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. ~ George Steiner

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. ~ Thomas Carlyle

The heart is forever making the head its fool. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. ~ Jean Galbert de Campistron

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ~ Thomas Carlyle

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. ~ Louis Nizer

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. ~ Mark Twain, Eve's Diary

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. ~ Dean Koontz

The mind cannot long play the heart's role. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld