Empathy Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empathy Inspirational Love Sensitivity Unawareness
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Sensitivity leads to awareness, knowledge and act. It is important to be sensible than knowledgeable. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is. — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The 'sensitive' person is a term to label a 'well-adjusted' person whose sensory perception and thought have survived the marketing onslaught and cultural indoctrination… — VD Copy Share Image
“The mechanisms that form our perceptions operate almost entirely below the level of conscious awareness; ironically, we cannot sense how we sense. (...) Because… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy… — Franck Khalfoun Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I try to treat every job with the exact same level of respect. When I go into it, it doesn't matter what the budget… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
“CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found themselves in… — Sindiwe Magona Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot. — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
