Bertrand Russell Quotes

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

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

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

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

The wise are wise only because they love.