Quotes about Empathy

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

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.