Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is… — Temple Grandin
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss. — Anderson Cooper
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their… — Justin Cronin
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as… — Claire Danes
I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy. — Zooey Deschanel
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems. — Roger Ebert
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about… — Brian Eno
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's… — Ralph Fiennes
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in… — Richard Eyre
Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance. — Carly Fiorina
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. — Mohsin Hamid
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. — Homer
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert M. Hutchins
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding… — Daisaku Ikeda
As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them. — Hugh Jackman
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of… — Helen Keller
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. — Jack Kerouac
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's… — Barbara Kingsolver
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. — Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. — Barbara Kingsolver
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of… — Dean Koontz

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