Empathy Quotes · Page 36

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

— Linda Pastan

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

“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

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

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

— Anonymous

All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand…

— Kobe Bryant

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for…

— Vivek Murthy

Empathy is experiencing others feelings and thoughts while remaining objective. It also requires that you are able to communicate to someone your…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“We should not fear the fragility of truth, for it creates openness to correction, learning, and growth. It fosters empathy, making inquiry,…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Sometimes what looks like insensitivity is a mask. A strong face someone puts on. Grief makes you feel vulnerable. And there are…

— L.T. Vargus

It wouldn't be nearly as much fun if everyone walked a mile in my shoes. There'd be like arms and legs, peckers…

— Rock Cowles

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really…

— Joe Shuster

“I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness… Sensitivity denies equal access…

— Scott M. Roberts

I think that you have to experience darkness to feel empathy. For all of my failings - and I have many -…

— Alison Moyet

I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

“Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional…

— Nenia Campbell

Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese,…

— Wayne Dyer

Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our…

— Stephen Batchelor

I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a…

— Annie Lennox

“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual…

— Azar Nafisi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

— Brené Brown

I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.

— Demetri Martin

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and…

— Susan Cain