Quotes about Empathy
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
— Albert Schweitzer
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
— George Eliot
They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.
— Napoleon Hill
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
— Graham Greene
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
— Oswald Chambers
When pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
— CS Lewis
The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
— Paulo Coelho
The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
— Paulo Coelho
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
— Oscar Wilde
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
— Joseph Addison
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
— John Milton
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
— Albert Schweitzer