Quotes about Empathy

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together.

She would have laughed if she haven't been at the point of crying.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere.

It must be pleasant, I should think, to hand oneself over to somebody else. It must give you a warm, splendid, comfortable feeling.

Recent threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.