Quotes about Empathy
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
— Euripides
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
— Albert Schweitzer
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
— Aristotle
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.
— CS Lewis
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
— Confucius
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
— Confucius
It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.
— Dorothy Day
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
— Edmund Burke
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
— George Eliot
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to.
— Terri Blackstock