Quotes about Empathy

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

what might have been had this family chosen to model forgiveness for their daughters rather than bitterness.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.