Quotes About Empathy

A great man is made so for others.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

The confession of one man humbles all.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.