Quotes About Empathy

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

You cannot know what you cannot feel.

When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.