1,354 Quotes About Empathy

When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions

As Neil Gaiman said, a book is a "little empathy machine," and it is "very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book of one of those people".

When people live in a fair, caring society, where everyone has equal access to social goods, they don’t have to spend their time worrying about how to cover their basic needs day to day – they can enjoy the art of living. And instead of feeling they are in constant competition with their neighbours, they can build bonds of social solidarity.

We read to escape, to embrace, to challenge, and to understand. Reading enages our intellect, but also our empathy, and we are all the better for it.

You have a sensual purpose, and it is to love deeper.

Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind.

What do you most get out of the artwork that you love the most? And answering my own question, I would hesitate to say that it is communing with someone else’s pain and frailty; it is the empathetic tear of another voice that is like yours but with more experience; it is your own adoration of a complex idea simply and acutely expressed. But chiefly it is that the work is located in the real.

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.