When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Votes: 4
Susan SarandonEmpathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Votes: 3
Marshall B. RosenbergEmpathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe. Votes: 3
Shannon L. AlderEmpathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work. Votes: 3
Daniel GolemanEmpathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward. Votes: 3
Marshall B. RosenbergEmpathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' Votes: 3
George McGovernLook what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary. Votes: 3
Jane FondaEmpathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding. Votes: 3
John MedinaEmpathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. Votes: 3
Heinz KohutEmpathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge. Votes: 3
Keira KnightleyEmpathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. Votes: 3
Eric ZornThe purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Votes: 3
Albert SchweitzerYet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Votes: 2
HomerCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? Votes: 2
Henry David ThoreauInsensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful. Votes: 0
Renford ReesePeace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity... Votes: 0
Johan GaltungSelf-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs. Votes: 0
Marshall B. RosenbergStaying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves. Votes: 0
Marshall B. RosenbergReligion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy. Votes: 0
Charles KimballMovies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems. Votes: 0
Roger EbertWith empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there. Votes: 0
Marshall B. RosenbergEffective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human. Votes: 0
Brian Solisempathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. Votes: 0
Simon Baron-CohenSympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else. Votes: 0
Saschka UnseldReason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality. Votes: 0
Dara ReidyrWith empathy, I'm fully with them, and not full of them - that's sympathy. Votes: 0
Marshall B. RosenbergI still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic. Votes: 0
Laura VandervoortReducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy. Votes: 0
Daniel GolemanWhen you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air. Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyOnce you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role. Votes: 0
Nicholas D. KristofCan we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? Votes: 0
Jeremy RifkinOnly men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs. Votes: 0
Carla H. KruegerYou have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer. Votes: 0
Paul HaggisIT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING. Votes: 0
Film Crit Hulk!Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating Votes: 0
Mark HaddonA fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer. Votes: 0
David JamesWhat I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel. Votes: 0
Paul BloomI use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise. Votes: 0
Michael K. WilliamsAs far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. Votes: 0
Elizabeth BergAnd connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth. Votes: 0
Mark ZuckerbergAlthough I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters. Votes: 0
Mia WasikowskaYou need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions. Votes: 0
Frans de WaalYou have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. Votes: 0
Laura CarmichaelMy heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day. Votes: 0
George SaundersThe art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. Votes: 0
Mary GaitskillReading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while. Votes: 0
Malorie BlackmanReal empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not. Votes: 0
Sheryl SandbergWhen people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. Votes: 0
Paul BloomI am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another. Votes: 0
David CrossI really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy. Votes: 0
Aimee BenderArt is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. Votes: 0
Amanda PalmerThe Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision " plus it's a lot of fun to read. Votes: 0
Myla GoldbergI hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs Votes: 0
Anita RoddickWe live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. Votes: 0
Ira GlassLearning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me. Votes: 0
Leslie JamisonOur leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to. Votes: 4 William Blum
Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy for others. Votes: 3 Tim Crawshaw
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. Votes: 7 Annie Lennox
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. Votes: 4 Ralph Fiennes
Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before. Votes: 1 Kelly Corrigan
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. Votes: 2 Graydon Carter
Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes. Votes: 5 Michael Eric Dyson