Quotes About Empathy

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.