Imagination Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with…

— TS Eliot

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize…

— George Eliot

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has…

— Jane Addams

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to…

— Paul Farmer

To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice…

— Dalai Lama

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so…

— Cesare Pavese

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

— Mary Robinson

Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason,…

— Charles Darwin

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

— Tom Hiddleston

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

— Paul Bloom

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we…

— Edwidge Danticat