Empathy Quotes

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

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Empathy comes from being empathized with.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

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

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.