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Quotes About Empathy

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
~ Owen D. Young
It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace
~ Howard Metzenbaum
These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
~ Izaak Walton
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
~ James Dobson
You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.
~ Joe Rogan
He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.
~ Johannes Tauler
It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with himself? ). Rather, it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him.
~ John Climacus
The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
~ Tadeusz Borowski
I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
~ Forest Whitaker
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
~ George Steiner
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
~ Aeschylus
All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.
~ Coco Chanel
A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
~ Confucius
A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.
~ Croft M. Pentz
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
~ Elbert Hubbard
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
~ Francois Rabelais
In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
~ Isaac Watts
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.
~ Kirk Douglas
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!
~ Leo Tolstoy