Human relations Quote by Isabel Briggs Myers

“So if the world were a simple place, where the only dilemmas one had to deal with involved a single person in some sort…

— Paul Bloom

“The human route to sympathy or empathy is a clumsy one but it's all we've got. To understand the consequences of our actions we…

— Anonymous

“they [thinkers] can remember how feeling types respond to sympathy and appreciation; a little of either will greatly tone down a necessary criticism, but…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others…

— Peter Hans Kolvenbach

The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very…

— Albert Bandura

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

— Nellie Bly

“(In part, quoting Robert Keegan from Harvard):'When we take the risk of really witnessing another human being, when we validate their human experience, we…

— Ashley Judd

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to…

— Oscar Wilde

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

— Brené Brown