Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Goodall

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

Jane Goodall

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that ‘the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.’ We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe.

Elizabeth Berkley

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Charles Dickens

Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

Charles Dickens

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

Alan Perlis

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Alan Paton

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Alan Arkin

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Alan Alda

Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

Dave Davies

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

David R. Brower

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

Camille Paglia

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

Chogyam Trungpa

Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things

Chogyam Trungpa

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Cheryl Strayed

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Cheri Huber

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

Cheri Huber

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Bob Horner

When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.

Biz Stone

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

Betty Smith

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

Bill Gates

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Bill Nighy

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

Bernard Goldberg

Journalists love to show their compassion.

Thomas Merton

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Everett Dirksen

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion

Antonio Tarver

It's really a slap in the face to all those who have pumped him up and glorified him all these years and that's the media, ... He shows no compassion for the sport - the sport that made him a wealthy man, an icon. Shame on him.

I know the compassion that these people have. But from listening here tonight the main issues I hear are quantity. But I'm most concerned about quality. This ordinance is not intended to go after people like you. This is intended for people not following the rules.

I hope they know that the people on our street sincerely feel so much compassion for them.

I want to express awareness, support and compassion because people obviously are devastated and traumatized by what has happened," ()

The world saw this tidal wave of disaster and now they're going to see a tidal wave of compassion.