Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life… — Peter Ho Davies
Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head. — Samuel Shem
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone… — Chris Kraus
Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist. — Khalil Gibran
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy. — Bill Drayton
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential. — Jane Goodall
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. — Dean Koontz
Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction… — Neil Gaiman
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for… — Adora Svitak
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin
Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing. — Leslie Jamison
Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing… — Leslie Jamison
When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft. — Leslie Jamison
Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make:… — Leslie Jamison
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. — Barack Obama
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because… — Kavita Ramdas
Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually. — Tim Minchin
...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable… — Jonathon Porritt
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard… — Daniel H. Pink
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a… — Daniel H. Pink
To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion… — Dalai Lama
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we… — Bill Gates
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of… — Carl Rogers
Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in… — Matthieu Ricard

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