Ability Quote by Eden Robinson

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely…

— Paul Bloom

We could be much more empathic as a society.

— Chandra Wilson

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

— Frans de Waal

Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational,…

— Seth Godin

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

— Leslie Jamison

Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an…

— Edward O. Wilson

If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we…

— Clint Smith

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

— Jonathan Haidt

Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the…

— Owen Jones

“Empathy is the mental habit that moves us beyond thinking of people as laboratory rats or standard deviations.”

— Tim Brown