True Empathy Quotes

#1. 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

#2. True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

Frans De Waal

#3. The misery of other people is only an abstraction [ ... ] something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.

Nicole Krauss

#4. True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought.

Carl R. Rogers

#5. I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about it. If your husband's been unfaithful to you, you know what that's like, you know how that feels. You can share true empathy with someone.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#6. There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.

Jill Soloway

#7. Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.

Lolah Runda

#8. Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

Claude Monet

#9. Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Matthieu Ricard

#10. True Christianity does more than feel empathy for those in need. True Christianity meets that need. - James Stuart Bell -

Gary Chapman

#11. If every Christian read Bible, they know that God's grace for us is Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader!

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.

Jana Elston

#14. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.

Miya Yamanouchi

#15. If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

Marianne Williamson

#16. If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same scene ten times, every time, dragging the boat exactly where it was up the river.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#17. True contentment comes with empathy.

Tim Finn

#18. Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?

Tom Peters

#19. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

Galileo Galilei

#20. The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

Brimstone

#21. Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

Antonya Nelson

#22. In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

David Hume

#23. Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love.

Christina Westover

#24. They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

Horace Mann

#25. 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

#26. Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

Khalil Gibran

#27. I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

Vanessa Hudgens

#28. The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.

Barry Switzer

#29. Incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.

Azar Nafisi

#30. True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Andre Gide

#31. There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

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Nicholas Sparks

#33. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

Josephine Humphreys

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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