Empathy Quote by Bob Wall

“Empathy is defined this way: “the ability to share and understand the feelings of another.” Women talking for hours at a lunch. Men walking…

— Wendy Walker

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy,…

— Patricia Sun

“Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. It has both emotional and cognitive aspects, involving…

— Jacqui Stedmon

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

We need all people, everyone, to think for themselves, to think critically, to think abstractly, to develop their powers of empathy.

— Michael Rosen

“Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able…

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

— Heinz Kohut

“The focus on “need fulfillment” that so often accompanies an emphasis on empathy leaves out the possibility that what another may really “need” (in…

— Edwin H. Friedman

“Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we do as…

— Brenda Walker

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to…

— Cornel West

“The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports…

— George Lakoff

“Whenever an individual’s own needs become so primary that they obscure the perception of another’s needs, mutual concern and empathy cannot exist.”

— Judith V. Jordan PhD