Quotes About Empathy

To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.

All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.

The person who truly understands love could love anyone.

No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.

On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.

The Creator gave man two ears and one mouth;there is a reason why He did so.

You might have thought the colonel would be interested in my experiences of five years' barbarism, but he wasn't. I wasn't long in discovering that it is a rare person in the white world who wants to hear what the other fellow says, all the more so when the other fellow really knows what he is talking about.

but we must show them that shedding blood should have nothing to do with being a man." This of course was said by someone who was not of the male sex. If she had created men they would have been nicer than the ones turned out by God.

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity.

Jesus was no ivory-tower philosopher but a down-to-earth man who understood that much of the good of human life is to be found in taste, touch, smell, and the small attentions of one human being for another.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

a sadist is a masochist who follows the golden rule