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Quotes About Empathy

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
~ Thomas Merton
Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.
~ Confucius
I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.
~ Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.
~ Frances Harper
A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
~ Fred Allen
It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.
~ Gautama Buddha
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
~ George William Norris
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
~ Albert Camus
Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
~ Albert Camus
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.
~ Alice Cary
Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.
~ Alison Goldfrapp
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
~ Andrew Carnegie
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
~ Anton Chekhov
If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
~ Barry Hannah
The right man won't care
~ Cassandra Clare
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
~ Charles Buxton
Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.
~ Compay Segundo
Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.
~ Dean Smith
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
~ Edmund Burke
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
~ Elbert Hubbard