Quotes about kind
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“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”

Source: The Magic Mountain

“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in "Chapters from My Autobiography — XX", North American Review No. DCXVIII (JULY 5, 1907) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19987. His attribution is considered unreliable, and the actual origin is uncertain, with one of the earliest known publications of such a phrase being that of Leonard H. Courtney: see Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Misattributed

“The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Night Road

Smile, Way, Time

“Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

Source: Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges

Soul, Hurt, Sincerity, Happiness

“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Lie, Heart

“Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Unsourced in The Philosophy of Mark Twain: The Wit and Wisdom of a Literary Genius (2014) by David Graham
Disputed

Relationship

“The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery.
“What is it?” she whispered.
“It’s a box,” he whispered back.
“What kind of box?”
“A wooden one.”
She gave him a look.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Box

“It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

World

“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.”

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model

On Tom Cruise, Time magazine (8 August 2005)

Life, Behavior, Thinking

“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Books

“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Reading

“He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Men

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Romantic, Love, Peace, Hope

“Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Way, Decision, Patience

“Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life… and fights to defend pride…”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 01

Life, Fight

“At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Education Of the Stoic

Ibid., p. 14-15
Source: The Education of the Stoic

Dead

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: The Book of Rites

Pleasure, Music, Nature

“Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.”

Robert Greene book The 50th Law

Source: The 50th Law

Fear

“Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on”

Maria Shriver (1955) journalist and author from the United States

Mother's Day, For Mother

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

Variant: You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

Beer, Help, Football, Country

“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.”

Catherine Deneuve (1943) French actress

Intelligence, Sense

“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Love, Secret, Knowledge

“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf, given at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM, 29 Sep 2002. Speeches Source: War Talk

People, Color, Clothes, Dead

“Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other."
I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.”

Kenneth Oppel (1967) Canadian children's writer

Life, World, Smile, Flying

“I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

Pain, World, Feeling, Flowers

“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Part III, Ch. VIII, 7, p. 223 https://archive.org/stream/basisofmorality00schoiala#page/223/mode/2up On the Basis of Morality (1840) Source: The Basis of Morality

Love, Men, Justice, Confidence

“Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

People, Age, Holiday

“Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

People, Business, Affliction

“When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”

Conan O'Brien (1963) American television show host and comedian

“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Love, Thinking

“For everything that's lovely is
but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Never Give All The Heart http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1545/ In The Seven Woods (1904) Source: Poems Context: Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

Love

“You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

Grass, Learning, Change

“Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Parting, Forgetting

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

People, Beauty, Way, Thinking

“It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”

Orhan Pamuk book Snow

Source: Snow

Love, People, Heart, Country

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

Secret, World

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

People

“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't
see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Friendship, People, Happiness

“I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.”

Tamora Pierce book Wolf-Speaker

Source: Wolf-Speaker

Thinking, Tree

“Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain

Love

“These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?”

Tamora Pierce book Cold Fire

Source: Cold Fire

“We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.”

Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer

Source: The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion

Life

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

Source: Pensées

Men, Thinking

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

Sam Levenson (1911–1980) American journalist

Deep, Beauty, Happy, Friendship

“What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?

… The term was.”

Barry Lyga (1971) American writer

Source: I Hunt Killers

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

Sleep, Heart, Fight

“A little more than kin, a little less than kind.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.”

Terry Pratchett book Maskerade

Source: Maskerade

People, Imagination

“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

Source: Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life

Guy, Beer

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

World, Way, Happiness

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

Terry Pratchett book Maskerade

Source: Maskerade

People

“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

People

“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ

“Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Hate

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”

Clarice Lispector book A Breath of Life

Source: A Breath of Life

Life, Death, Madness, Dead

“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

Love

“A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.”

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States

“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 8: Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Heart, Dead

“Oh, well… up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.”

Terry Pratchett book Nation

Source: Nation

Way

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

Pleasure, Faith

“The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Depressing, Pain, Smile, Tear

“What kind of grad student do you take? “I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.”

Lynn Margulis (1938–2011) American evolutionary biologist

Teachers

“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Animals

“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are”

Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet

People

“But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Life, Death, Heart, Forgetting

“I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.”

Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer

Feeling

“An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.”

Alberto Moravia (1907–1990) Italian writer and journalist

Un male incerto provoca inquietudine, perché, in fondo, si spera fino all'ultimo che non sia vero; ma un male sicuro, invece, infonde per qualche tempo una squallida tranquillità.
Source: Il Disprezzo (Milano: Bompiani, 1954) p. 77; Angus Davidson (trans.) Contempt (New York: New York Review of Books, 2005) p. 75.

Hope, Evil, Time, Heart

“I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Stupidity, Beauty, Time

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Juno MacGuff: Nah… I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?”

Diablo Cody (1978) Screenwriter and author

Source: Juno: The Shooting Script

“If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to.
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"I'm Your Man"
I'm Your Man (1988)

Love, Lovers

“What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Love

“There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.”

Etgar Keret (1967) Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter

Source: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories

People, Sleep

“I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

People, Thinking

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”

Douglas Preston (1956) American author

Source: The Monster of Florence

“So many gods, so many creeds;
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

The World's Need
Poetry quotes

God, World, Sadness, Art

“when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.”

P. C. Cast (1960) American writer

Source: Goddess of the Sea

Life, Change, Personality

“It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”

Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) Social psychologist

Source: Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View (1974), p. 205
Context: The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Personality