Quotes About Empathy

Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

Racism can happen anywhere, in everyday life as well, but it's always very sad, it shouldn't happen.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

I always try to think about what I can do to let people know that I'm just like everyone else. I have two girls here at home I'm trying to raise. I'm trying to be a good stepmom. I'm trying to stay fit and be a good model and break ground in the acting world. I'm working that same struggle every other woman is trying to work.

I'm human just like everyone else.

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

I think if you push to get to know somebody, it's not a natural evolution.

Most men are not that evolved.

I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

Most athletes act all unhuman and you can't relate to them. I'm the exact opposite.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren't exactly the same as us.

Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation if you're telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people you thought were one way and in fact are another. They can allow us to examine ourselves.

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.