Empathy Quotes

“teach us equality through empathy”

— Michelle Frost

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

— John Cornyn

Fiction is empathy technology.

— Steven Pinker

“empathy is more powerful than sympathy”

— Angie Thomas

“Peace, love, empathy”

— Kurt Cobain

I honor and protect my sensitivity.

— Cheryl Richardson

“Mutual respect outdistances aspersion.”

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

All actual life is encounter.

— Martin Buber

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

— Erol Ozan

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

— Howard Jacobson

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

— Edouard Manet

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

— Megan McCafferty

You know you truly love someone when you begin to feel pain for that person.

— Anonymous

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

— Frans de Waal

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

— Rumi

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

— Chris Ware

“Research on parenting, for example, continually finds the elusive quality of “sensitivity” to be the key in raising children well. Turning”

— Elaine N. Aron

Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

— Dalai Lama

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

— Johan Galtung

I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.

— Henry Cavill

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

— Karen Armstrong

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

— Daniel Goleman

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact,…

— Charles M. Blow

Plays can create empathy. If you put a Muslim character on stage, and make him a full character, you're making it possible…

— Motti Lerner

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what…

— Claire Danes

“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated…

— Ernst Toller

We often want the world to think we are strong and everything is perfect, when the reality is sometimes we are hurting…

— Kenya Moore

We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female…

— Riane Eisler

“people act badly, it is easy to just call them negative or derogatory names. But once you look at their scans and…

— Daniel G. Amen

We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe,…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Unfortunately, she discovered too late that her unwritten list of desirable attributes was missing a few crucial items. Empathy, for one. A…

— Delphine Dryden

My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of…

— Jesse Eisenberg

The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to…

— Bernie Glassman

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get…

— Tracy Letts

Empathy provides more than just information about relationships. It is an expression of being in relationship. It is not just a means…

— Maureen O'Hara

“I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for…

— Brent Green

Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you…

— Ricky Gervais

“In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll