Empathy Quotes

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rub...

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also tha...

The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing tells the story of the gangster leaders who carri...

Alone, [Chamcha] all at once remembered that he and Pamela had once disagreed, as they disagreed on ...

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to ...

I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experien...

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy repl...

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and n...

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the p...

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most ...

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be...

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination t...

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul ...

The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and sh...

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but...

call it empathy. That means putting yourself in the place of the other person and seeing their point...

Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Ne...

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said...

Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head....

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgm...

If I had an ear 2 confide inI would cry among my treasured friendsBut who do u know that stops that ...

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, a...

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties,...

The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even livi...

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, doomed to go in company with pain, and fear, and bloodshed, mi...

I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be bet...

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel t...

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for...

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear a...

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves ...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emot...

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of a...

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to...

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money a...

To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding.To erase the possib...

And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far. Won...

Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.

There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully car...

Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pa...

In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes f...

To perceive is to suffer.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect...

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another ...

Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. It is only throug...

Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them...

It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are inc...

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaki...

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by ...

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage...

I believe a stronger sense of empathy would tilt the balance of our current politics in favor of tho...

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war...

There's something in everyone only they know.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the lo...

At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds...

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't surv...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the...

No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They...

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness b...

Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at t...

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rath...

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to fe...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself s...

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one n...

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accep...

Dream!Forge yourself and riseOut of your mind and into others.Men, be women.Fish, be flies.Girls, ta...

Her father dropped her off in front of the place where she was to live and left the engine running. ...

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you...

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to hi...

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue wh...

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lac...

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, ou...

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence....

Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat...

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with ...

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yours...

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowi...

In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commerc...

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a ...

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empath...

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the ligh...

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and th...

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.