Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

Tommy Amaker

Well, we know their staff, we have empathy for what they're going through, what they've gone through all season.

Ben Harper

There's something in everyone only they know.

Ben Harper

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Trai Byers

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

It seems like an obscure rule. I think we could all have been guilty of it if we don't watch it. I have more empathy for him than anything, really.

Cornel West

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

David Simon

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.

Gloria Steinem

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Gloria Steinem

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Paul Bloom

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

Paul Bloom

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

Paul Bloom

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Jeremy Rifkin

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Gillian Anderson

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

Oprah Winfrey

Leadership is about empathy.

Margaret Atwood

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

Jay Griffiths

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Jacques Rogge

These were Games of heart, warmth and empathy and smiles. I must say the venues were perhaps the most remarkable in Winter Games history.

You see people on rooftops. You see people separated from parents. There's a lot of empathy and sympathy.

Hans Hofmann

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Hugh Jackman

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Horace Greeley

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Gary Bauer

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

George Saunders

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

Goldie Hawn

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

Harper Lee

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Empathy is not a substitute for introspection. Stepping into someone else's shoes because yours don't fit means you still get to walk in ill-fitting shoes, you just don't get to own them.

Imelda Staunton

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

Terence

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.