Quotes About Empathy

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.

When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings.

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.

I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I'm a character. I understand their point of view, but it's difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I'm so nervous.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

Just because someone has a different political view or opinion than you doesn't make them a bad person.

I have never met anybody who can change their point of view as easily as me. It's profoundly embarrassing.

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of view, why they say what they do. And not, 'Oh, but I would never say that. Why does the character say that?' But then making it as personal as possible.