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Quotes About Empathy

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.
~ Bow Wow
But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.
~ Brom
We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
~ C. S. Lewis
I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.
~ Cassandra Clare
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
~ Sallust
Good men must be affectionate men.
~ Samuel Richardson
Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.
~ Seneca the Elder
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
~ Seneca the Younger
One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
~ Socrates
If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)
~ Swami Vivekananda
Man will ever stand in need of man.
~ Theocritus
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
~ Thomas Kyd
I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
~ Vince McMahon
I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.
~ W. D. Snodgrass
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
~ Walter Scott
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
~ William Faulkner
Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
~ William Faulkner
For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
~ H. L. Mencken
Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
~ Hannibal
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
~ Hippocrates
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
~ Honore de Balzac
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human
~ Hugh Prather