Empathy Quotes - Page 2

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

Listen, that you may live.

Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.