"Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and……" — Rebecca Solnit
"Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site.
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
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More Empathy Quotes
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
— Andrea Arnold
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly…
— Christian Bale
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I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We…
— Javier Bardem
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
— Gary Bauer
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
— Scott Adams
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
— Theodor Adorno
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
— Joyce Brothers
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
— Jimmy Buffett
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving…
— Leo Buscaglia
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