Quotes About Empathy

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.