Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability judgment and knowledge but above all a passion for service.
A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes its character its importance or insignificance.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind but an active exertion of the inward strength vigor and power of the mind displaying itself from within.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion but a blight bred in the cloudy damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy or even hatred.
As iron is eaten away by rust so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions instincts and passions intelligence and reason.
I'm in awe of the universe but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals though even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative whether Buddhist or Catholic.
For passion be it observed brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons fools and idiots especially during youth.
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
That neither our thoughts nor passions nor ideas formed by the imagination exist without the mind is what every body will allow.