Quotes About Empathy

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

Your views are now my own.

Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.