Quotes About Empathy

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.