Children Quote by Richard Louv

“Surely we can train ourselves to an empathic imaginative sympathy for another species. Taught what to look for in facial features, gestures, postures, behavior,…

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to…

— Frans de Waal

Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction…

— Sue Gerhardt

“Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason…

— Keith Ablow

We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for…

— Riane Eisler

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

— Andy Dunn

I think there's some evidence that we're empathic by nature. There is some evidence from studies of babies and young children that they resonate…

— Paul Bloom

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

— Jessamyn West

“Children are constantly focused on their parents and will mirror them. Therefore, what they experience in the home will be crucial for their empathy…

— Iben Dissing Sandahl

In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion…

— William Kittredge

“The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports…

— George Lakoff

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

— Bill Drayton