Quotes About Empathy

aquel sentimiento que suele calificarse de tolerancia: una tibia mezcla de asco, desprecio y compasión. El hombre ya no le conmo?vía. Le resultaba indiferente.

Until now he had thought that it was the world in general that he wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world, in this world devoid of humanity.

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

It feels so good to be loved," Murphy said. "How would ye know?" said Paddy. "I hear things and have a good imagination," he said.

I've always said that you should walk a mile in a man's shoes before you judged him. That way, you have his shoes and a good head start.

There was something about animals and babies that causes competent and sane adults to be reduced to a state of speaking pure gibberish. Normally,

Souls unite in the face of violence, if only on the common ground of frailty.

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

I've lived long enough - Stonehenge and me - that I've learned even when folks do spiteful things, they have a reason. Often when I know the reason, their actions make sense. It doesn't make them right, but it does make sense; and when I understand, I tend to be less critical and more compassionate.

Gratefully, I've lived long enough to know that if I can own my failures, others won't struggle with them either.

The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.