Empathy Quotes - Page 24

• My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Indirect, Synthetic, Persons

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Dark, Blue, Views

  Shel Silverstein, “Point Of View”

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• If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

  Yann Martel

  Pain, Skins, Doe

  "Yann Martel: 'Jewish people don't own the Holocaust'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2010.

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• People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

  Stephen Covey

  Talking, People, Understanding

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• When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

  David A. Cooper

  Understanding, Listening, Contemplative

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• Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.

  Daniel Goleman

  Mean, Knowing, Giving

  Daniel Goleman (2009). “Working with Emotional Intelligence”, p.140, A&C Black

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• As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Character, Important, Needs

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• Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

  Michael Greger

  Caring, Compassion, Role Models

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• 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

  Anger, Littles, Good Things

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• The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

  Jill Lepore

  Imagination, Study, Investigation

  Jill Lepore (2011). “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

  Teju Cole

  Looks, Gaps, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Play, Supportive, Connections

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Kids, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

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• If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Religious, Feelings, Depth

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Thinking, Compassion

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• As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think environmental concerns have to go to the deep place, so we speak from a place of great empathy for the planet - for the disadvantaged people, animals, places, cultures.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Animal, Thinking, People

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• Things would hurt me in a big way because I didn't seem to have a very thick layer of skin, but this also meant I had extreme empathy for other people. I think perhaps that's what makes my songs hit home for some people, because I've tried to see the world through their eyes and I recognise- even just for a second- that we all ultimately are struggling with the same things.

  Missy Higgins

  Song, Hurt, Struggle

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• My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Heart, Satisfaction

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Compassion, Feelings, Mind

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you could read them yourself. Whereas if someone [you like] shambles out, and they tell you what a bad day they've had, they don't have to say anything. I love them. I want to hug them because they've been through something. And it comes back to empathy, always empathy.

  Ricky Gervais

  Bad Day, Comedian, Hug

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• I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

  Tao Lin

  Character, Thinking, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy.

  Narendra Modi

  Bridges, Political, Understanding

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• Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Communication, Home

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• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Fear, Sleep

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