Empathy Quotes And Sayings

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“The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”
– Christopher Hitchens

“The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: ‘anima’—the ability to think a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.
– Christopher Hitchens

“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.”
– Daisaku Ikeda 

“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection – or compassionate action.”
– Daniel Goleman

“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”
– Daniel Goleman

“There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy… They’re controlled by different parts of the brain.”
– Daniel Goleman 

“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”
– David Eagleman

“Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.”
– David Miliband 

“She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.”
– Dean Koontz

“Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
– Dean Koontz

“Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.”
– Derrick A. Bell

“How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?”
– Didier Eribon

“Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength.”
– Drizzt Do’Urden

“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitutde, but compassion holding its breath.”
– Edith Warton

“I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it.”
– Edward Norton 

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word – holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.”
– Elizabeth Gaskell

“All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.”
– Elizabeth Goudge

“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear,” he said. “Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”
– Elizabeth Goudge

“Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.”
– Émile Gaboriau

“The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.”
– Erica Bauermeister 

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”
– Erol Ozan

“If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.”
– Frederick Buechner

“Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration’s support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society’s most powerless.”
– Gary Bauer 

“Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy – in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it’s not government‘s role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.”
– Gary Bauer 

“Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.”
– Gary Bauer 

“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination”
– George Bernard Shaw

“If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you’d think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.”
– George Eliot

“Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction ‘Love the neighbor as thyself.’”
– George McGovern 

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