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Quotes About Empathy

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
~ Richard M. Nixon
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
~ Mark Twain
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.
~ Frederick William Faber
Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
~ Rich Mullins
In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
~ David Perkins
All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
~ Leonard Carmichael
Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.
~ John Wooden
The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.
~ Arnold Mindell
Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
~ Amy Purdy
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.
~ Bruce Lee
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.
~ Roger Scruton
Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.
~ Carly Simon
Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.
~ Carol S. Dweck
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
~ Adam Driver
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
~ Edmund Wilson
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
~ Alan Perlis
My words itch at your ears till you understand them
~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.
~ Martha Beck
If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
~ Yoko Ono
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
~ George Washington Carver