Steven Pinker Quotes

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

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

I am constantly nice to people. Sometimes they don't deserve it.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

I don't hate people. I just accept missions.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.