The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings. — William Ickes Copy Share Image
“Our mistake is to confuse our limitations with the bounds of possibility . . .” — William Golding Copy Share Image
Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful. — Renford Reese Copy Share Image
When you're getting older, actually you're getting younger; in sensitivity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can never truly understand someones pain until you are the one who feels it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium… — Hal Whitehead 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
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone who needs comfort is empathy from a heart that understands.” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Trust the one who could see three things in you: sorrow behind your smile, love behind your anger and meaning behind your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated. — David A. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Today most of the people don't want to read or listen but surely they want to feel - so empathy is the… — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
My life was forever changed by people who took the time and had the patience to learn my story and to share… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
“We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
We now know, from the latest research about neurons, that we are hard-wired for empathy. We're hard-wired for cooperation. That is something… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Women partners of men with Asperger's Syndrome have mentioned qualities such as quiet, kind, strong, and attentive as what attracted them to… — Chantal Sicile-Kira Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“There are times we will miss the opportunity to be empathic. Mental health professionals often call these “empathic failures.” There are also… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
“The third facilitative aspect of the relationship is empathic understanding. This means that the therapist senses accurately the feelings and personal meanings… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now. — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
