Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

A loving heart is an inventive one.

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Tenderness is a virtue.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.