Empathy Quotes - Page 11

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.

Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel, you're in someone else's head, in three, five different people's heads. Suddenly, the principle of "Don't do anything to anyone that you wouldn't want done to you" becomes real in people's minds. That's a fantastic achievement if fiction is indeed partly responsible for it. That's a great thing to be a part of. In the end, then, I don't know if writers have legislated, but they have civilized.

Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

Empathy before education.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.