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KILLING : There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. (Unknown Source: )

KINDNESS : Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

KINDNESS : Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind. (Charles L. Lucas: U.S. World War II Gold Star Veteran)

KINDNESS : Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind, always. (Robin Williams: U.S. actor and comedian, 1951-2014)

KINDNESS : Honey catches more flies than vinegar. (Italian Proverb: )

KINDNESS : I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

KINDNESS : In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

KINDNESS : Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

KINDNESS : Kindness gives birth to kindness. (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.)

KINDNESS : Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. (Walter S. Landor: English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)

KINDNESS : Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

KINDNESS : Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

KINDNESS : Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. (Theodore Rubin: U.S. psychiatrist, author, and a past president of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1923-2019)

KINDNESS : Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! (Henri-Frederic Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

KINDNESS : Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. (John-Baptiste H. Lacordaire: French preacher, journalist, and activist, 1802-1861)

KINDNESS : No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. (Aesop Fable: )

KINDNESS : One kind word can warm three winter months. (Unknown Source: )

KINDNESS : One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898)

KINDNESS : Pay it forward! (Lily H. Hammond: U.S. writer and leader in the world of Southern Methodist women’s home missions, 1859-1925)

KINDNESS : 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 W. Wilcox: U.S. author and poet, 1850-1919)

KINDNESS : The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

KINDNESS : The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. (Theodore Haecker: German writer, translator, and cultural critic, 1879-1945)

KINDNESS : The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. (Louis de Bernieres: English novelist who in 1993 was selected as one of the '20 Best Young British Novelists,' Born 1954)

KINDNESS : The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

KINDNESS : This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

KINDNESS : To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. (Donald A. Laird: U.S. author and professor, 1897-1969)

KINDNESS : Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998)

KINDNESS : Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

KINDNESS : We don't have to agree on anything to be kind to one another. (Unknown Source: )

KINDNESS : What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? (Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose work influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution, 1712-1778)

KINDNESS : When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. (Abraham J. Heschel: Polish-born U.S. rabbi and professor, 1907-1972)

KINDNESS : Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. (Unknown Source: )

KINDNESS : Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

KINESTHETICS : Learning by doing. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

KINESTHETICS : Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. (Ivan Illich: Croatian-Austrian philosopher, priest, and polemical critic of the institutions of Western culture, 1926-2002)

KINESTHETICS : Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin: British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books, Born 1944)

KNOW-HOW : A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

KNOWLEDGE : A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

KNOWLEDGE : All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

KNOWLEDGE : An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

KNOWLEDGE : Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Thomas H. Huxley: English biologist and anthropologist specializing in comparative anatomy and was an advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, 1825-1895)

KNOWLEDGE : How little we know of what there is to know. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

KNOWLEDGE : If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

KNOWLEDGE : If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions. (Susanne Langer: U.S. philosopher, 1895-1985)

KNOWLEDGE : If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. (Margaret Fuller: U.S. author, critic, and women's rights advocate, 1810-1850)

KNOWLEDGE : Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. (Jimmy Wales: Internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of Wikipedia, the online non-profit encyclopedia, Born 1966)

KNOWLEDGE : It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. (Unknown Source: )

KNOWLEDGE : It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

KNOWLEDGE : It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. (Thomas Sowell: U.S. economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Born 1930)

KNOWLEDGE : Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. (Herman Hesse: German-born poet, painter, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize In Literature, whose works include "Steppenwolf," and "Siddhartha," 1877-1962)

KNOWLEDGE : Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future. (W. Timothy Garvey: U.S. endocrinologist and professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama)

KNOWLEDGE : Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

KNOWLEDGE : Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

KNOWLEDGE : Old men have much knowledge and experience just as old trees have many roots. (Chinese Proverb: )

KNOWLEDGE : Own what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your bag. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)

KNOWLEDGE : Pain is the root of knowledge. (Simone Weil: French philosopher and political activist for the working class, 1909-1943)

KNOWLEDGE : Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

KNOWLEDGE : Seek knowledge from the cradle to the coffin. (Muhammad (Prophet): )

KNOWLEDGE : So little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated. (Edith Hamilton: U.S. educator and internationally known author of her best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, 1867-1963)

KNOWLEDGE : Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle. (Unknown Source: )

KNOWLEDGE : The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. (Laurence Sterne: Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768)

KNOWLEDGE : The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

KNOWLEDGE : There is no knowledge without sacrifice. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

KNOWLEDGE : There is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

KNOWLEDGE : There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. (Carl Rogers: U.S. psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach in psychology, 1902-1987)

KNOWLEDGE : True wisdom comes . . . when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

KNOWLEDGE : We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

KNOWLEDGE : Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

KNOWLEDGE : Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

KNOWLEDGE : Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. (Julio Olalla: Chilean consultant and former government attorney, Born 1945)

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