Empathy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
-- Alex Flinn -
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
-- Alfred Adler -
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
-- Alison Gopnik -
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
-- Anderson Cooper -
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
-- Andrea Arnold -
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
-- Anita Roddick -
Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.
-- Ann Veneman -
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
-- Annie Lennox -
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.
-- Ansel Adams -
Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke -
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn ***** when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
-- Art Linkletter -
It takes a great man to make a great listener
-- Arthur Helps -
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
-- Arthur Koestler -
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
-- Barack Obama -
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
-- Barack Obama -
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
-- Ben Stein -
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.
-- Benjamin Percy -
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
-- Betty Edwards -
We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through.
-- Bill Drayton -
Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
-- Bill Drayton -
Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.
-- Bill Drayton -
Go looking for conflict, and you'll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you'll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you're his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you'll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.
-- Bob Burg -
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.
-- Boyd Rice -
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
-- Brené Brown -
We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
-- Brené Brown -
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
-- Brené Brown -
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.
-- Brené Brown -
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.
-- Brené Brown -
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
-- Brené Brown -
Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
-- Brian Solis -
Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.
-- Brian Tracy -
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.
-- Carl Rogers -
When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.
-- Carl Rogers -
Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.
-- Carl Rogers -
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.
-- Carl Rogers -
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.
-- Carl Rogers -
So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.
-- Carl Rogers -
Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.
-- Carl Rogers -
True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".
-- Carl Rogers -
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.
-- Carl Rogers -
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.
-- Charles de Lint -
Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.
-- Charles Kimball -
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
-- Charles M. Blow -
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
-- Charlie Brooker -
I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.
-- Charlize Theron -
I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.
-- Chris Kluwe -
Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.
-- Chris Kluwe -
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
-- Chris Ware -
It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
-- Christian Bale -
Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
-- Claire Danes -
Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.
-- Claudia Llosa -
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures,
-- D. Todd Christofferson -
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 -
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
-- Dan Chaon -
Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.
-- Daniel Batson -
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
-- Daniel Defoe -
Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.
-- Daniel Goleman -
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
-- Daniel Goleman -
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
-- Daniel Goleman -
The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.
-- Daniel Goleman -
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
-- David Eagleman -
We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.
-- David Foster -
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
-- David Hume -
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
-- David James -
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
-- David Miliband -
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.
-- David Riesman -
In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.
-- David S. Broder -
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
-- David Simon -
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 -
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
-- Dean Koontz -
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
-- Dean Koontz -
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.
-- Dean Koontz -
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
-- Derrick Bell -
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
-- Desmond Tutu -
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
-- Desmond Tutu -
How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?
-- Didier Eribon -
I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
-- Dominic Cooper -
Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.
-- Don Peppers -
Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.
-- Donald Margulies -
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
-- Douglas Adams -
When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt -
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.
-- Emil Nolde
