Empathy Quotes - Page 25

• It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Country, Writing, Past

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• As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Ideas, Form

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.11, Imprint Academic

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• The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

  Adam Smith

  Fall, Passion, Degrees

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.22, Imprint Academic

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• Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Use, Messages

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• If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the root of the problem, then the result is often that the child not only calms down, but also in the future is less likely to get so upset.

  Carolyn Hax

  Children, Roots, Upset

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Lying, Years, Practice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy. I notice when I meet other friends of mine that were raised Christian sometimes we have similar model of sensitivity, whether to our advantage or disadvantage.

  Weyes Blood

  Christian, Compassion, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

  Stephen Covey

  Skills, Important, Humans

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• Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.

  Brent L. Top

  Kindness, Blessing, Compassion

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• Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in a nominee to replace Justice David Souter. He wants 'someone who understands justice is not just about some abstract legal theory,' he said, but someone who has 'empathy.' In other words, judges should decide cases so that the right people win, not according to the rule of law.

  Michael Barone

  Attitude, Winning, Law

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• There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one.

  Kim Basinger

  People, Needs, Roles

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Sadness, Simple

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• I'm not making excuses for the missed opportunities of the Israelis, or the lack of generosity, the lack of empathy that I think goes hand-in-hand with the suspicion. So, yes, there is more that the Israelis need to do to really demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds, and they want to figure out, within the bounds of security and a Jewish democratic state, what can be accomplished.

  Hillary Clinton

  Pain, Opportunity, Thinking

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• But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.

  Ann Coulter

  Powerful, Groups, Victim

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• There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

  Edwidge Danticat

  People, Suffering, World

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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• I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

  Scarlett Alice Johnson

  Thinking, Practice, Intuition

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

  Leslie Jamison

  Issues, Limits, Friction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.

  Leslie Jamison

  Thinking, Attention, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some ways devalue the usefulness of empathy. I do think empathy can be learned. And enhanced.

  Jim Shepard

  Commitment, Thinking, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.

  Jim Shepard

  Mean, Exercise, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Gillian Anderson

  Understanding, Feels, Agree

  "The year of Gillian Anderson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 21, 2016.

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• I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

  Michael Helm

  Disposition, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

  Julianna Baggott

  Reading, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.

  Jill Soloway

  Real, Comfort, Paranoia

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Ignorance, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

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