Empathy Quotes - Page 20

• Fiction is empathy technology.

  Steven Pinker

  Technology, Fiction

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• The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

  George Bernard Shaw

  Heart, Imagination, Irishmen

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• If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

  Karen Armstrong

  Men, Compassion, Void

  "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life". Book by Karen Armstrong, 2010.

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• Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Eye, Dark

  Rudolf Steiner (2013). “The Essential Rudolf Steiner”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Real, Character

  "How Emmanuel Carrère Reinvented Nonfiction" by Wyatt Mason, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2017.

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• This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Eye, Hands

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1152, Delphi Classics

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• Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

  David Eagleman

  Humanity, Favors, Problem

  David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.78, Canongate Books

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• All actual life is encounter.

  Martin Buber

  Encounters, Life Is, Actual Life

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.82, eBookIt.com

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• How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Selfish, Men

  Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?

  Dan Wells

  Girl, Mean, Years

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.41, Macmillan

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• I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Feelings, Pet

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• In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply flawed human beings with serious psychological problems. Even them. When I get inside their skin and look out through their eyes, I have to feel a certain - if not sympathy, certainly empathy for them. I have to try to perceive the world as they do, and that creates a certain amount of affection.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Eye, Order

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• Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

  Dennis Lehane

  Lying, Home, Unconditional Love

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• Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

  Spider Robinson

  Pain, Joy, Entropy

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• When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

  Carl Rogers

  Responsibility, Confusion, Listening

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• Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

  Hazel Hawke

  Women, Moving, Mountain

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• My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

  Chris Ware

  Grandmother, Might, Turns

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

  Thomas Berry

  Kindness, Doe, Earth

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• One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

  Sophocles

  Kindness, Real, Acceptance

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

  Brian Solis

  Marketing, Engagement, Helpful

  FaceBook post by Brian Solis from Dec 27, 2014

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• To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

  Peter Senge

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

  Brimstone

  Girl, Kids, Compassion

  "The Uplift War". Book by David Brin, chapter 10, p. 66, 1987.

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• Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.

  Joan Dunayer

  Hurt, Pain, Who Cares

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• Anguish is the universal language.

  Alice Fulton

  Language, Anguish, Universal

  Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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