Empathy Quotes

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

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

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Empathy grows as we learn.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

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The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

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

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.

Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.

Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

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

An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.