Quotes About Empathy

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

Even a witch wants sympathy.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.