Quotes about Compassion

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

To a great extent the world is what we make it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with the infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles, and avoids a spirit of fault finding.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all.

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they do need friendship in addition; and in the realm of the just things, the most just seems to be what involves friendship.

Mankind now faces its ultimate emergency. In such a moment of crisis, is it not right for us to call upon the instinct that has always ensured our survival in the past? A poet in an earlier, almost equally troubled age put it better than I can ever hope to do: WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.