Quotes About Empathy

Don't assume that everyone on earth has seen every movie you have seen.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

All learning has an emotional base.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

There's nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they're there because they understand.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

You need emotional content.