Empathy Quotes
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Empathy Quotes & Sayings
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writing is a sustained act of empathy.
— Andre Dubois
The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.
— Siri Hustvedt
Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2) — Alexia Purdy
Peace,love,empathy
— Kurt Cobain
You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.
— Last Man Standing
empathy is taken for granted. When it is gone there is no protection against the wild inside of us.
— P.M. Barnes
There is no small act of kindness.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.
— Brandon Mull
The most potent magics are tied to human truths: beauty and passion and yearning and fortitude and valor and empathy.
— Brent Weeks
I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
— Bat For Lashes
Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.
— Donald Margulies
Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world.
— Daniel H. Pink
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
— Rebecca Solnit
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
— William Safire
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
— Neil Gaiman
To perceive is to suffer.
— Aristotle.
No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen ... One can listen better if one sees the whole.
— Bill Drayton
Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct
— Dean Cavanagh
But when he's cut, I bleed.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
— Vironika Tugaleva
Fiction is empathy technology.
— Steven Pinker
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.
— Parker J. Palmer
If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go.
— Brian L. Weiss
To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.
— Shannon L. Alder
The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.
— Vironika Tugaleva
To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
— Elaine Scarry
When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.
— Paul Bloom
There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
— Edwidge Danticat
Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
— Shannon L. Alder
Mankind needs more empathy.
— Philip K. Dick
Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
True contentment comes with empathy.
— Tim Finn
Digital is the age of empathy.
— Pearl Zhu
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
— Stefan Molyneux
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity ...
— Johan Galtung
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
— Abraham Lincoln
Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don't know the soul's senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony
— Steven Aitchison
I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.
— Marion Marechal-Le Pen
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
— Shannon L. Alder
Empathy before education.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
— Vernor Vinge
I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.
— Joe Ehrmann
All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
— Ben Harper
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
— Betty Edwards
Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.
— Leslie Jamison
Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.
— William Arthur Ward
Empathy needs no genius.
— Toba Beta
Listen that you may live.
— Isaiah
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.
— Keira Knightley
If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child.
— Debasish Mridha
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
— Arthur Koestler
Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.
— Richard Brookhiser
We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses.
— Mark Williams
A thousand pounds for clotheswhen on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
— Julianna Baggott
The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.
— Erica Bauermeister
Don't take me for granted. I know more than I let on, see more than you realize., and care more than you can imagine.
— Charles F. Glassman
Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.
— Sandra Vischer
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
— Annie Lennox
Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.
— Ashly Lorenzana
If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura.
— Ian Svenonius
Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.
— Leslie Jamison
It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.
— Doreen Orion
Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.
— Hal Elrod
Diligence, word-lust, empathy equal growing objectivity and then what? Story. Story. Dammit, story!
— Stephen King
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
— Desmond Tutu
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)
— Karen Armstrong
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
— Harper Lee
The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A man posing for a painting.
— David Hume
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
— Jonathan Tropper
