Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.… — Daniel Goleman
Feeling one "has"; love occurs. — Martin Buber
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. — Roger Ebert
...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand. — Kim Harrison
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the… — Rosa Luxemburg
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them… — Holly Black
It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times… — Stephen Chbosky
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for… — Stephen Batchelor
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance… — Mahatma Gandhi
Fiction is empathy technology. — Steven Pinker
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination — George Bernard Shaw
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95) — Karen Armstrong
Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself… — Rudolf Steiner
We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a… — David Foster Wallace
This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires,… — Stephenie Meyer
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems. — David Eagleman
All actual life is encounter. — Martin Buber
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render… — Adam Smith
APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people… — Dan Wells
It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well,… — Elizabeth Hoyt
Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not… — Marc Bekoff
Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names… — Tariq Ramadan
Empathy isn't as hard as it sounds because people have a lot of the same feelings. And it helps to understand other people because then… — Kathryn Erskine
Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too,… — Deb Caletti

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