Quotes about Empathy

It's meaningless to live a long life if you think only about yourself, and give no thought to caring about others.

That is the highest and most profitable lesson, when a man truly knoweth and judgeth lowly of himself. To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom

He who would weigh well and rightly his own doings would not be the man to judge severely of another.

To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. Even

1. To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. Even shouldest thou see thy neighbour sin openly or grievously, yet thou oughtest not to reckon thyself better than he, for thou knowest not how long thou shalt keep thine integrity. All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.

To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.

We are not wise in ourselves.7 So we must support one another,8 be tolerant of each other,9 help, teach and advise one another. It is in times of trouble that we really discover the true value of our helpers. They do not weaken us, but reveal their true nature.

All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

The person who truly understands love could love anyone.

No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.