Have Empathy For Others Quotes

#1. The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right from wrong, to value all life, is only possible through our ability to reason. Reason is what powers morality.

Terry Goodkind

#2. I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability.

C. JoyBell C.

#3. Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don't know the soul's senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony

Steven Aitchison

#4. Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy.

Les Carter

#5. There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Edmund Burke

#6. But if you trace even the biggest of these conflicts down to its roots, what you find are entrenched biases, and these sort-of calcified failures of empathy.

Anonymous

#7. When your boss listens to you carefully, reaches out to help you, and learns from you, it enhances your dignity and pride. Doing so also helps your boss gain empathy for you, to better understand how it feels to be you and what you need to succeed in your job and life.

Robert I. Sutton

#8. If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.

Ellen J. Barrier

#9. Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Ray Bradbury

#10. If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

Gavin McInnes

#11. I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.

Eoin Colfer

#12. Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.

C. JoyBell C.

#13. Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

Bill Drayton

#14. That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Jane Addams

#15. The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports life.

George Lakoff

#16. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

Adam Smith

#17. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Criss Jami

#18. Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#19. An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselves in feeling for others.

Donna Lynn Hope

#20. In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Erica Jong

#21. Healthy self-care means finding fulfillment so that you have energy, love, and empathy for others. Finding the middle ground means realizing that it is not an either-or situation - you are neither full of self nor drained of self.

Karyl McBride

#22. Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.

Sandra Vischer

#23. The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

Frans De Waal

#24. One does not remember one's own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

Anna Funder

#25. If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#26. To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.

Mac MacKenzie

#27. Thus evolved some members of the Core - not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.

Dan Simmons

#28. What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.

Steve Earle

#29. I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.

Peter S. Beagle

#30. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Walt Whitman

#31. To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Hans Hofmann

#32. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. I am because I feel.

Amit Abraham

#34. Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

Stefan Molyneux

#35. The jury was a cynical, unsophisticated bunch, seemingly incapable of empathy, eager to embrace defense bromides however haphazardly delivered.

David Turner

#36. Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring on disquietude.

Donna Lynn Hope

#37. I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.

Renee Lawless

#38. We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Graydon Carter

#39. He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor.

J.D. Salinger

#40. I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#41. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Criss Jami

#42. teach us
equality through empathy

Michelle Frost

#43. What takes the place of the strict rules of the Strict Father model is clarity of expectations and empathy. What takes the place of reward and punishment is interdependence, communication, and a true desire to remain affectionately connected to those you live with. F

George Lakoff

#44. Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually.

Dalai Lama XIV