Quotes About Empathy

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man

I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.