Quotes About Empathy

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.