Quotes About Empathy

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.

It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.