Empathy Quotes · Page 13

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

— Piers Anthony

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

— Gloria Steinem

“Hatred has no place in your heart. Empathy does.”

— Evan Grinde

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

— Sherilyn Fenn

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

— Gloria Steinem

“Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children.”

— Laini Taylor

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

— Don Peppers

“It’s the little hints that they opt to disregard, the small decisions that lack any form of empathy. It’s never in the…

— Elelwani Anita Ravhuhali

“In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue…

— Ted Gioia

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

— Dash Mihok

Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues…

— Elissa Slotkin

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from…

— Melina Marchetta

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

— Ben Sasse

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist…

— Jesse Ventura

I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about…

— Kathie Lee Gifford

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth…

— John Joseph Powell

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability…

— Ann Patchett

If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing…

— Devendra Banhart

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so…

— Tao Lin

The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a…

— Heath Ledger

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow…

— Katie Kitamura

“She reminded him of the small team of Starfleet officers who had rescued him from certain death on his homeworld many years…

— David Mack

I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil.…

— C.E. Morgan

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

— Bernie Glassman

“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

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

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It…

— Boyd Rice

Other species help children develop empathy.

— Richard Louv

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

Only when you understand apathy and see beyond sympathy will you achieve empathy.

— Melchor Lim

“Humor and sensitivity are the man's best qualities to earn the heart of a woman.”

— Anoir Ou-Chad

Everyday you wake up is a gift even if at times it sucks.

— Aroha Janet

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

— Anonymous

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

— Tim Minchin

“You should not judge; you should understand.”

— Ernest Hemingway