Quotes About Empathy

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you, " would be understood: It would be practiced.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don't need your sympathy, and you should not feel guilty, just teach them how to fish.

I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.

I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

Love is the end of sympathy.

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.

The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep.

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.