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Quotes About Empathy

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
~ Charles Sumner
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
~ Ralph Nader
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
~ Margaret Mead
I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.
~ Unknown
Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
~ Princess Diana
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
~ Liz Carpenter
Someone asked someone who was about my age: How are you? The answer was, Fine. If you don't ask for details.
~ Katharine Hepburn
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
~ Leonard Nimoy
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
~ Mark Twain
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
~ Proverb
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
~ Will Rogers
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
~ Erik Satie
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
~ Jimmy Durante
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes.
~ Billy Connolly
Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
~ Unknown
A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
~ Anonymous
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
~ Doug Larson
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
~ David Ogilvy
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
~ Mark Twain
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
~ Groucho Marx