Quotes About Empathy

I am convinced that a person doesn't only love himself in others; he also hates himself in others.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

Sometimes we know a person better than we can say, or at least than we do say.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

You cannot drive people to do things which are right, but you can love them into doing them, if your example is of such a character that they can see you mean what you say.

The living need charity more than the dead.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

What I wish above everything at this moment is that I could save myself the pain of seeing the pain on your face.

The key, of course, is loving the churchless for who they are rather than for what they can offer our church

It's all right, little woman, take my word for it. If I were you, I'd cry. You'll see things differently through your tears.

A good groom will rather stroke than strike.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity

Animals are my friends... and I do not eat my friends.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.