Quotes About Empathy

The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.

I try to construct a theory on how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

Not all people are affected the same way by the same events. We are each our own fingerprints and the sum of our own life's experiences.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

The third preventive for callousness is the life of prayer (Heb. 4:14–16).

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

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.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

Who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul.

More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness.

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don't know the first thing about them.

We have as many personalities as we have friends' Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.