Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

Being humble matters.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

Work at being a humble person.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.