Learning Empathy Quotes

#1. Remorse for what is done is useless.

Philo

#2. Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.

Tim Hudson

#3. What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Abraham Verghese

#4. Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

Carl Rogers

#5. Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.

J.K. Rowling

#7. In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.

William Kittredge

#8. 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

#9. We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy.

Nel Noddings

#10. History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

John Lothrop Motley

#11. Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

William Jennings Bryan

#12. It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

Robert Frost

#13. What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.

Thales

#14. 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

#15. Criticism, can be done with a kind heart and an earnest word to stimulate learning. However, sometimes with no accountability there is no regard for kindness or empathy to help another grow

Eri Nelson

#16. So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.

Christina Baker Kline

#17. Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

Leslie Jamison

#18. It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Lydia Millet

#19. I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

Thomas Harris

#20. 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.

Michael Gove

#21. I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

Cara Delevingne

#22. I love you, Miracle," he whispered. "You're mine," he said, inching his way forward a bit more, "and i'm yours," he added, moving further in. "Forever.

M. Leighton

#23. Losing other people's money was terrible.

Nick Woodman

#24. 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

#25. I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Carl Sandburg