Kindness Quotes

Small acts. Big impact. These quotes make the case for compassion as a way of life.

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"To understand is to forgive."
Avicenna
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"Kindness is the highest form of intelligence."
Avicenna
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"The measure of a person is how they treat the smallest among them."
Avicenna
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"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the poor before they become needy."
Maimonides
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"Cruelty is a disease of the soul that must be cured through education."
Maimonides
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"The person who serves others serves the Divine."
Maimonides
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"To act with compassion is to choose the higher path every time."
Maimonides
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"Who can despise all things if he despises himself?"
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Kindness is the foundation of all virtue."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Kindness is contagious and multiplies through action."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"The remedy of this defective sympathy in our judgments of the characters and conduct of others, must be attended with some difficulty."
Hume, David
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"The human heart is capable of both great kindness and terrible cruelty."
Hume, David
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Descartes, René
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"A man may not so abandon the care of mankind as to let them perish."
Locke, John
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"The basis of all virtue is good-will and love."
Locke, John
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"A kind word can heal what medicine cannot."
Al-Ghazali
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"Every act of kindness ripples outward in ways unseen."
Al-Ghazali
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"Kindness is the supreme virtue, for it encompasses all others."
Avicenna
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"One should never cause another to feel shame."
Maimonides
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"Do not despise the small acts of kindness; they are the foundation of greatness."
Maimonides
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"Kindness is the highest form of intelligence."
Maimonides
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"Charity without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without charity is barren."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"To forgive is to free oneself from the burden of resentment."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Self-love is not shameful when it is the foundation of self-respect and virtue."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Generosity flows from the recognition of our interdependence with all things."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"To understand why another acts as they do is the beginning of forgiveness."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Generosity is the sign of a truly noble soul."
Descartes, René
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"Do not rejoice at an enemy's misfortune, for you know not what tomorrow holds."
Al-Ghazali
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"The believer's shade on the Day of Judgment will be their charity."
Al-Ghazali
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"Kindness is never wasted; it returns when least expected."
Al-Ghazali