Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

Ninety-five percent of the time, I put myself in somebody else's position - that's how I live.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.