Character Quote by Paul Bloom

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you…

— David Brooks

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

— Jonathan Haidt

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody…

— Paul Bloom

I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look at that…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you…

— Leslie Jamison

Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as…

— Matt Bellamy

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

— Jane Goodall

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us…

— Vivek Murthy

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

— Barack Obama

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Empathy comes from being empathized with.

— Stanley Greenspan

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about…

— Kafu Nagai