I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much. — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another. — David Cross Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Imagine yourself in your counterpart’s situation. The beauty of empathy is that it doesn’t demand that you agree with the other person’s… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“It's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I love the theatre and Miller is one of my all-time favourite playwrights. 'All My Sons' is a very socialist play, which… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of… — Liz Becker Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder—how do we respond to our fellow humans when they break down in front of us? Do we recognize… — Kelli Russell Agodon Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so;… — R. Murray Schafer Copy Share Image
People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person, is just another part of accepting freedom of speech and expression! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Well, you’re part of the human fabric of experience. You don’t have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don’t have… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple:… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
