Quotes about Empathy

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.