The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps,… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I try to treat every job with the exact same level of respect. When I go into it, it doesn't matter what… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly,… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily… — Brent L. Top Copy Share Image
I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“To be able to fight pain, you need the empathy of others. Once you start believing that there are other people who… — Saki Kawashiro Copy Share Image
“When you and I feel empathy toward another being-be it human or one of our fellow creatures-it's tinged with the whiff of… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“One of the easiest things in life is to judge others. One of the simplest things we can ever do is to… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's two sides… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
If you and I are not having a dialogue, when you're having an argument, the reason the argument happen is because we… — Subir Chowdhury Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
The best way to have empathy for people and the best way to have empathy for our Constitution is to appoint judges… — Wendy Long 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
The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Wouldn t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving,… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
“At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and… — Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Trump's lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
“Before this case, he’d never given any thought to transgender issues. His employers flew the rainbow flag and celebrated Pride week, so… — Dawn Chalker Copy Share Image
“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice...forcing others… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise;… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
“Many of the characteristics displayed by psychopaths…are closely associated with a profound lack of empathy (an inability to construct a mental and… — David Bagby Copy Share Image
It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
