Top Empathy Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Empathy quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Nora Roberts
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
- Nora Roberts
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Image of Martha C. Nussbaum
As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.
- Martha C. Nussbaum
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Image of Sam Lipsyte
I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.
- Sam Lipsyte
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Image of Dada Vaswani
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.
- Dada Vaswani
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Image of Derrick Bell
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
- Derrick Bell
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Image of Terence
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
- Terence
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Image of Brené Brown
Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.
- Brené Brown
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Image of Jeremy Rifkin
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?
- Jeremy Rifkin
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Image of Josephine Humphreys
But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.
- Josephine Humphreys
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Image of Peter Singer
Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.
- Peter Singer
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Image of Frans de Waal
Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.
- Frans de Waal
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Image of Jonathan Haidt
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide
- Jonathan Haidt
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Image of Eric Fischl
Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.
- Eric Fischl
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Image of Sophia Amoruso
Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.
- Sophia Amoruso
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Image of Emile Gaboriau
Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.
- Emile Gaboriau
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Image of Bill Drayton
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
- Bill Drayton
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Image of Salvador de Madariaga
My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.
- Salvador de Madariaga
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Image of Eric Zorn
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
- Eric Zorn
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Image of Enrico Caruso
During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?
- Enrico Caruso
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Image of Martin Buber
All actual life is encounter.
- Martin Buber
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Image of Stanley Greenspan
Empathy comes from being empathized with.
- Stanley Greenspan
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Image of Simon Baron-Cohen
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.
- Simon Baron-Cohen
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Image of Simon Baron-Cohen
The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
- Simon Baron-Cohen
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Image of Simon Baron-Cohen
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.
- Simon Baron-Cohen
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Image of Simon Baron-Cohen
Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.
- Simon Baron-Cohen
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Image of Brian Solis
Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
- Brian Solis
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Image of Gavin McInnes
If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!
- Gavin McInnes
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Image of Don Peppers
Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.
- Don Peppers
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Image of Fra Angelico
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
- Fra Angelico
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Image of Kane
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
- Kane
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Image of Paul Bloom
I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.
- Paul Bloom
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Image of Paul Bloom
Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.
- Paul Bloom
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Image of Laura Vandervoort
I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic.
- Laura Vandervoort
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Image of Leslie Jamison
Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.
- Leslie Jamison
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Image of Mark H. A. Davis
Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another
- Mark H. A. Davis
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Image of Daniel Batson
Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.
- Daniel Batson
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Image of David Sylvester
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
- David Sylvester
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Image of Martin Hoffman
An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.
- Martin Hoffman
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Image of William Ickes
The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
- William Ickes
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Image of Erica Bauermeister
The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.
- Erica Bauermeister
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Image of Eden Robinson
Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.
- Eden Robinson
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Image of Subir Chowdhury
If you and I are not having a dialogue, when you're having an argument, the reason the argument happen is because we are not listening to each other. Then, the argument comes in, but if we truly listen instead of hearing, argument will not happen. Then, we'll empathize, and then once the empathy kicks in, you will be much more inclining with my viewpoint and I'll be inclining with your viewpoint, and that's what is missing in organizations.
- Subir Chowdhury
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Image of Jane Fonda
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
- Jane Fonda
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Image of Alice Fulton
Anguish is the universal language.
- Alice Fulton
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Image of David A. Cooper
When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.
- David A. Cooper
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Image of Katherine Ellison
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
- Katherine Ellison
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Image of Roy Schafer
Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.
- Roy Schafer
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Image of John Medina
Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
- John Medina
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Image of Ira Glass
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
- Ira Glass
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Image of Jay Griffiths
Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.
- Jay Griffiths
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