Quotes about Empathy
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
— CS Lewis
The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.
— Roseanne Barr
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.
— Anonymous
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
— Helen Keller
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
— George Eliot
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
— Oscar Wilde
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
— Mark Twain
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
— Livy
A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
— Robert Frost
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
Revenge is an inhuman word.
— Seneca