Top 99 Quotes About Understanding Empathy
#1. Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?
Trai Byers
#2. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and
Nicholas Sparks
#3. I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's
Nicholas Sparks
#4. I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy.
Narendra Modi
#5. Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis
Christopher Paolini
#7. Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.
Patrick Rothfuss
#8. 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 like 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
#9. The deepest form of understanding another person is empathy...[which] involves a shift from...observing how you seem on the outside, to...imagining
Indi Young
#10. Empathy is the accurate understanding of another person'ts internal experience. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with that experience. Unlike sympathy, it makes no assumptions about how the other person is feeling.
Madeline Levine
#11. When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.
Jana Elston
#13. Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.
Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.
Tim Minchin
#14. Behind her warm facade radiating empathy and understanding, there was an aggressive, bad- tempered bitch, putting up endless walls of goodness to conceal her rage and resentment toward the entire world. She was like an alligator in a velvet jumpsuit.
Zygmunt Miloszewski
#15. The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
Robert Jensen
#16. If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#17. Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.
John Mark Reynolds
#18. They ran past him without notice, but I paused and stood over the boy. I wanted to feel something--wanted to find some understanding in his actions; some empathy in his upbringing; at least a fragment of sympathy for the secret he carried.
Christopher Scotton
#19. None of us can choose where we shall love...
Susan Kay
#20. the whole point of literature, I think, is that it's the best technology we have for communicating what another person's life feels like from the inside.
Garth Greenwell
#21. Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
John Medina
#22. Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#23. Everything is going to be alright' doesn't mean stubbing your toe won't hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle
Brian A. Jackson
#24. I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Empathy doesn't necessarily mean being self-sacrificing. Far from it. Understanding how someone else sees things doesn't imply that you'll act in his interest; in some situations - in war, for example - you want to do exactly the opposite.
Paul Graham
#26. The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.
Paul K. Chappell
#27. For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
Carson McCullers
#28. To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.
Peter Drucker
#29. What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.
Fernando Pessoa
#30. You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#31. Listen that you may live.
Isaiah
#32. Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.
Shannon L. Alder
#33. If you're treating people poorly then you're not emulating God's love. God always resides with the broken hearted.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.
Carl Rogers
#36. Understanding Subtle & Not-So-Subtle Motivations, Helps Grow Consideration, Empathy & Compassion, Which Leads to Forgiveness
Miriam Sachael
#37. The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
Patricia Sun
#38. Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own
and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.
Benjamin Percy
#39. Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).
Shannon L. Alder
#40. If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
Gayle Forman
#41. Let's go old school to impress people. Wear a smile, rather than a branded dress. Crease out our differences with understanding. And, use empathy, care, and patience as accessories. Then, let's make a conversation, not talk.
Ah, what a fine world it would be! Fine, pure and minus artifice.
Saru Singhal
#42. I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way
John Legend
#43. Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen ... One can listen better if one sees the whole.
Bill Drayton
#45. 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.
Charles M. Blow
#46. The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. 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
#49. The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#50. Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.
Elizabeth Goudge
#51. The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.
Zhuangzi
#52. Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.
Chris Kluwe
#53. Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
Criss Jami
#54. Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
Richard Eyre
#55. It takes a great man to make a great listener
Arthur Helps
#56. What we understand and love understands and loves us also.
Robert Walser
#57. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.
Lloyd Shearer
#58. 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
#59. I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy
a little boy!
Dale Carnegie
#60. You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.
Mia Wasikowska
#61. When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
Jean Renoir
#63. People who stare. I ask for a little empathy. Please don't judge. Be understanding that some places will strongly affect me. My senses are heightened and i experience lights, noise and smells differently that you might. Stimming will help me regulate myself to my environment as well as calming me.
Tina J. Richardson
#64. Designing memorable experiences is easier said than done. Most importantly, you need empathy and understanding for your fellow human. It's the love for mankind that ultimately makes UX interesting.
Safari Content Team
#65. In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
Jon Ronson
#66. People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's.
Nenia Campbell
#67. It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we do as readers, as people striving for a generous understanding of one another.
Brenda Walker
#70. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss Jami
#71. I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.
Gillian Anderson
#72. 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.
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
Tim Kreider
#77. The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
Simon Baron-Cohen
#78. The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
Shannon L. Alder
#80. If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person. Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.
Mary Kay Ash
#81. 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
#82. The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#83. What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
Karl Rove
#84. Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#85. Indeed, insight is the true hallmark of empathy. The power of true empathy is its ability to give us a fresh understanding of the other person's emotions and thoughts to illuminate an aspect of their experience that would not have been apparent to us had we not stepped into their shoes.
Guy Winch
#86. The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.
Brian A. Jackson
#87. 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
#88. And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far.
Wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far?
To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of understanding.
Amanda Palmer
#89. [ ... ] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding.
William Deresiewicz
#90. When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
Gavin Hood
#91. Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
Shannon L. Alder
#92. You can't ever give people what they want. But you can give them something else. You can give them empathy. You can give them understanding. And that's a lot, and enough to give.
Amanda Palmer
#93. No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#94. 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
#95. Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.
Kim Harrison
#96. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.
David S. Broder
#98. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one ... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#99. One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.
Tim Kreider
