Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Empathy

Modern barber college, Smith eyes closed suffers a haircut fearing its ugliness 50 cents, a barber student olive-skinned 'Garcia' on his coat, two blond small boys one with feared face and big ears watching from seats, tell him 'You're ugly little boy & you've got big ears' he'd weep and suffer and it wouldn't even be true, the other thinfaced conscious concentrated patched bluejeans and scuffed shoes who watches me delicate, suffering child that grows hard and greedy with puberty.
— Jack Kerouac
I'm going to write ceaselessly about the dignity of human beings no matter who and or what they are, and the less dignity a person has the fewer words I'll use.
— Jack Kerouac
Nonetheless we understood each other on other levels of madness...
— Jack Kerouac
This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy
— Jack Kerouac
This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy
— Jack Kerouac
After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.
— Jack Kerouac
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
— Epictetus
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
— Simon Sinek
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
— Clay Aiken
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
White people must speak out against black racism, no matter where it rears its ugly head.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.
— Joel Osteen