Quotes About Empathy

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.