I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
Thomas Aquinas
A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others
Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
Joseph Butler
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson
I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable
Dalai Lama
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
Meister Eckhart
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures
Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi
With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
Christina Baldwin
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
Junius
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha