Quotes About Empathy

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.

You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

I don't think you should be ashamed of anybody that you know that has AIDS. You should stand as close to them as you can and help them out as much as you can. I'm a strong believer in that and that's why I try to do that for everyone I know that has the virus.

I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.

There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

Clearly, on a visceral human front, I oppose any wall, anywhere, between any people - period.