Quotes About Empathy

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Who's to say my light is better than your darkness?

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!

Unlike Charlie, I was incapable of making friends or thinking about other people and their problems. I was interested in myself, and myself only. Fr one long moment in that mirror I had seen myself through Charlie's eyes - looked down at myself and saw what I had really become. And I was ashamed.

I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you wheeled me into that operating room!

P.S. please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepul laff at him and he woud have more frends. Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Se você é intelijente você podi ter muitos amigos pra conversar e você nunca fica solitário sosinho o tempo todo.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness?

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

Como você sabe o que sinto? Você toma liberdades com a mente alheia. Não dá pra você saber como me sinto, o que sinto ou por que sinto.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say? . . .

Seeing Charlie huddled beneath the covers I wish I could give him comfort, explain to him that he has done nothing wrong, that it is beyond him to change his mother's attitude back to what it was before his sister came. There on the bed, Charlie did not understand what they were saying, but now it hurts. If I could reach out into the past of my memories, I would make her see how much she was hurting me.

She brings me things to eat and she fixes my bed and she says I was a very brave man to let them do things to my hed. She says she woud never let them do things to her branes for all the tea in china. I tolld her it wasnt for tea in china. It was to make me smart.

there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I

And so it went. Most of them felt the way Joe and Frank and Gimpy did. It had been all right as long they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies. I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it.

Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just borrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

Size ÅŸunu hipotez olarak sunuyorum: Sevgi alma ve sevgi verme yeteneÄŸinden yoksun olan zeka, zihinsel ve ahlaki çöküÅŸe, nevroza ve muhtemelen psikoza bile yol açar. Ve ben-merkezci bir amaca odaklanan ve insan iliÅŸkilerini d??layan bir beynin, sadece ÅŸiddete ve ac?ya neden olaca??n? da eklemek istiyorum.

Ama ben zekan?n tek ba??na hiçbir anlam ta??mad???n? öÄŸrendim. Burada, sizin üniversitenizde zeka, eÄŸitim ve bilgi büyük idoller haline gelmiÅŸ. Ama ÅŸimdi biliyorum ki, hepinizin atlad??? bir ÅŸey var: Sevgi ve ÅŸefkat eli deÄŸmeyen zeka ve eÄŸitim beÅŸ para etmez.

Existem muitas pessoas que darão dinheiro ou bens materiais, mas poucas que darão tempo e atenção.

I've got to guard against the natural tendency to look down on them now that I have surpassed them.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. That's what I mean.' His voice grew harsh, and he pointed to an empty baby bottle on the bookshelf across the room.

I put Algernon's body into a small metal container and took him home with me. I wasn't going to let them dump him into the incinerator. It's foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. I wept as I put a bunch of wild flowers on the grave.

But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.