Learn Empathy Quotes

#1. When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

Gavin Hood

#2. It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Desmond Tutu

#3. Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

Tamar Jacoby

#4. No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.

Zak Ebrahim

#5. I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.

Mary Lambert

#6. Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.

S. Kelley Harrell

#7. I do not think we are born with empathy. We learn it only after we have felt the hurt that we've inflicted on another.

M.D. Ireman

#8. To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#9. Look at you, all Rocky Horror Picture Ho.

Michelle Rowen

#10. When you learn to feel the pain of an ant, you will truly learn to love this world.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

Tony Bennett

#12. Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

Jack Horner

#13. Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others.
I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't.

Maggie Nelson

#14. I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

Jerry Spinelli

#15. There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.

Jeremy Stoppelman

#16. When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

Henry Rollins

#17. If you're treating people poorly then you're not emulating God's love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus

#19. Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt.

Thomas Huxley

#20. That was the beauty of horse stealing, though - you could always ride your stolen property.

Craig Johnson

#21. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#22. Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

Jerry Costello

#23. Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller

#24. In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.

Ruth Reichl

#25. Men be so foolish as to have delight and pleasure in the doubtful glistering of a trifling little stone, which may behold any of the stars or else the sun itself.

Thomas More

#26. I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

Ian Rankin

#27. We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#28. I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry.

Jodi Picoult

#29. 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

#30. And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.

Christina Baker Kline

#31. I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.

R.J. Palacio

#32. Empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller

#33. Just about every animal," Scott says - not just mammals and birds - "can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy.

Sy Montgomery

#34. 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.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#35. We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#36. All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#37. As we learn to embrace our authentic longings and feelings - and cultivate self-empathy and the corresponding compassion toward others - our society will gradually evolve in a direction that is more tolerant, humane, and enlightened.

John Amodeo

#38. Empathy is a quality today that we need more than ever. Throughout his life Jesus showed empathy and care for others on a level never seen before. From him we learn that Gods ways of service to others before obsession with self is the path he wants us to walk on and deep down we know it.

Tim Crawshaw

#39. 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.

John Wooden