Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified… — Milan Kundera
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. — Emma Lazarus
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. — Laura Linney
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. — Dean Martin
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. — Mary Martin
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' — George McGovern
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. — Mignon McLaughlin
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are… — Karl A. Menninger
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn… — Alice Miller
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident -… — Alanis Morissette
While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained… — Dee Dee Myers
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside… — Edward Norton
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what… — Barack Obama
To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for… — Conor Oberst
I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My… — Yoko Ono
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. — Mehmet Oz
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. — Marge Piercy
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. — Plutarch
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. — Keanu Reeves
'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices… — Karl Rove
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. — Karl Rove
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great… — Bertrand Russell
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. — Susan Sarandon

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