1,354 Quotes About Empathy

I don't think you have to be from a region to have empathy for what people are going through.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.