Quotes About Empathy

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.

In order to like someone you don't necessarily need to agree with them. It's part of our nature to want to connect.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.