Quotes About Empathy

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles,one would hardly see anybody,

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.

One always has hope for human nature

To see ourselves as others see us!

We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.

One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

The hardest thing in life and the hardest to live through is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering. You can do things to aid people's physical disabilities; but you can do little to help the pain of the heart.

I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.

If you look into somebody's soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in.

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

The human and personal element can never be ignored.