Quotes about Empathy
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
— Joseph Addison
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
— Samuel Johnson
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
— Thomas Merton
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
— David O. McKay
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
— Euripides
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
— Albert Schweitzer
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
— Aristotle
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.
— CS Lewis
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
— Confucius
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
— Confucius
It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.
— Dorothy Day
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