Quotes About Empathy

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

A good man never fights with a woman.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.