Empathy Quotes · Page 35

“Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Neil Gaiman

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and…

— Karen Armstrong

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

— Keira Knightley

Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and…

— Herb Ritts

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

— Sarah Manguso

“Most people who are able to handle LLI have high levels of empathy and are often very perceptive of others.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Virginia Woolf

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you…

— Mike Tyson

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life.…

— Dan Chaon

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place…

— Ramona Koval

I want to say documentary filmmakers are some of the most conscious media makers, the most empathetic, though sometimes empathy is the…

— RaMell Ross

“I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers. I learned…

— Satya Nadella

Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal…

— Maureen Johnson

“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the…

— Kamand Kojouri

There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and…

— Michael Kenna

Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to…

— Mark Zuckerberg

“Victimspeak is the trigger that permits the unleashing of an emotional and self-righteous response to any perceived slight. Charges of racism and…

— Charles J. Sykes

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help…

— Alice Miller

“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much…

— David Graeber

“To be with another in this [empathic] way means that for the time being, you lay aside your own views and values…

— Carl R. Rogers

When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness.…

— Rudolf Steiner

“Do not assume that you know what love is, until you learn what respect is. And do not assume that you’re a…

— Robin Sacredfire

“People do not learn empathy by being shamed and dehumanized. On the contrary, developing empathy has a lot to do with a…

— Derek Flood

You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.

— Anonymous

Sensitivity is a too-way street. When you are sensitive you can feel and appreciate, but you can also be injured more easily.

— Frederick Lenz

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've…

— Scott Mechlowicz

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.

— Paul Bloom

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

— Anonymous

Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend…

— Robert Reich

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no…

— Bat for Lashes

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

— Daniel Goleman

Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for…

— Mary Robinson

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

— Vanessa Hudgens

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not…

— Kelly Corrigan

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Tenderness from empaths will be used against them time and time again by psychological abusers.”

— Shannon Thomas

“When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.”

— Johnson Bandi

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

— Hugh Howey

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

— Kim Harrison