Quotes About Empathy

Communication is the most important single activity of man.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

The healthy man does not torture others.

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.