Quotes About Empathy

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

Peter Norman's a man's man.

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.