Empathy Quotes

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other"側. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

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

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

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

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we'd known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

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.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs