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Quotes About Empathy

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
~ Pat Morita
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
~ Ovid
I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.
~ R. D. Laing
Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
~ Ralph Steadman
Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.
~ Randall Wright
If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
~ Helen Rowland
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
~ Henry Ford
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.
~ Hermann Graf Keyserling
If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.
~ Hojo Shigetoki
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
~ Honore de Balzac
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
~ Isak Dinesen
I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.
~ Janet Suzman
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
~ Jessica Savitch
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
~ John Cheever
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.
~ John Fairclough