To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time… — William Blake Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
