Quotes About Empathy

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get alnog with people.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this nature and these needs set forth as nowhere else by the great imaginative writers, whether of prose or of poetry.

We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand.

Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

We cannot sit huddled within our own borders and avow ourselves merely an assemblage of well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond.

I am President of all the people of the United States, without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation or social condition. My aim is to do equal and exact justice as among them all.

Now and then I am asked as to 'what books a statesman should read,' and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?" "It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

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Numai atunci cand vor invata sa dialogheze oamenii vor incepe sa fie egali.

Die verborgenen Gedanken in den Köpfen der Anderen sind das große Dunkel, das uns umgibt.

How could I possibly gone this long without the touch of another human being? I've been living my life like a zombie

I must tell you this, Maggie. Your letters are my lifeline. Your threat to stop them terrified me. Never stop writing to me, I implore you.