Quotes about Empathy

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

It's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.

People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.