The number one rule of our training is empathy before education. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.” — Timothy W. Tron Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge. — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Have you ever been surfing? Imagine you're on your surfboard now, waiting for the big one to come. Get ready to get… — Marshall B. Rosenberg 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
You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, sociopaths are antisocial by nature, and their lack of empathy and foresight consigns them to view society only as a restraint… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident… — David N. Elkins Copy Share Image
“It is Christlike to assume that people are trying to do the best they can. I know I am a better person… — Ashley mae Hoiland 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
If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better -… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Empathy is defined this way: “the ability to share and understand the feelings of another.” Women talking for hours at a lunch.… — Wendy Walker Copy Share Image
“While I may not appreciate someone’s actions in the moment, it is useful to try to understand and relate to the possible… — Kathy Obear Copy Share Image
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Their analysis revealed that a number of psychopathic attributes were actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals--attributes such… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy. — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy. — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else. — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
