Empathy Quotes

Empathy needs no genius.

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Certain actions bring harm, other more wizened actions bring harmony.

To Move from Woe to Wow with an Unhappy Customer. . . Thank the Customer!•

Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren’t an entrepreneur.

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.