Quotes About Empathy

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

Man must look after man sicne no god watches out for us.