George Washington Carver Quotes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Love is something that we need to learn.

In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

I'm not gonna say I'm the greatest guy, but the reason I don't hate is I know what it feels like to be hated. So I always pull for Tom Brady.

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested.

Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.

Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.