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Quotes About Empathy

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
~ Confucius
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
~ Confucius
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
~ E. W. Howe
I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
~ Elizabeth I
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
~ Felix Frankfurter
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
~ Frederick William Faber
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
~ Friedrich Schiller
That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
~ Gautama Buddha
Conquer the angry man by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think that a man should be caring.
~ Little Richard
Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
~ Marjorie Holmes
The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.
~ Marshall Field
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.
~ Nancy Friday
A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
~ Nelson Mandela
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
~ Paul Watson
She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
~ Phil Ochs