1,354 Quotes About Empathy

Choose empathy over apathy.

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

To us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main character. He has a life and a job and a whole story. He's a real person. And to him, we're the background scenery.

An officer put me in my place from the first moment.I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word--without a warning or explanation--moved me from where I was standing to another spot and passed by as though he had not noticed me. I could have forgiven blows, but I could not forgive his having moved me without noticing me.

And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far. Wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far?To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of understanding.

پدرم گفت قبل از هر چیز به اطلاعتان برسانم که همسرم دیگر چیزی نمیشنود؛ اگر چه جسمش اینجاست ولی روحش جای دیگری است. نه چیزی ح میکند و نه حرفی میزند. هیچ چیز هم نمیبیند. با این وجود اگر از من دور شود شروع به گریه میکند.میگویند او بیش از حد توانش متحمل درد و رنج شده است و تصمیم گرفته دیگر درد و رنج نکشد. خودش را از دنیای ما کنار کشیده.

He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor.

I think that we have to create in ourselves, through critical analysis of our practice, some qualities, some virtues as educators. One of them, for example, is the quality of becoming more and more open to feel the feelings of others, to become so sensitive that we can guess what the group or one person is thinking at that moment.

Education, from Addams' perspective, must not merely make us more adept at defending ourselves against those with different agendas. Education should increase our powers of empathy and our ability to act in concert with others.