Quotes About Empathy

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Toleration is the best religion.

Travel teaches toleration.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

He who hates vice hates men.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

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

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

Let me be big in little things...

Service isn't a big thing. It's a million little things.