Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world. — Unknown Author
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. — Unknown Author
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant. — Art Linkletter
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs… — John Ciardi
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin
When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we… — Edward R. Murrow
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to… — Flannery O'Connor
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it… — William H. Gass
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his… — Albert J. Nock
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity… — E. M. Forster
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and… — E. M. Forster
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent… — David Riesman
The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl. — Virginia Woolf
I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were… — Booker T. Washington
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. — Thomas Carlyle
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our… — Ariel Dorfman
I think his deepest quality is empathy. — Paul Begala

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