Empathy is the ability to identify with or understand the perspective, experiences, or motivations of another individual and to comprehend and share another individual's emotional state. Empathy defines understanding and entering into another's feelings. This is a collection 100+ Empathy quotes and sayings.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. - Mohsin Hamid
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. - Mehmet Oz
Human morality is unthinkable without empathy. - Frans de Waal
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while. - Malorie Blackman
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. - Philip K. Dick
Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't. - Phil Klay
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. - Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change. - Max Carver
Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share. - Shannon L. Alder
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms. - Sterling K. Brown
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. - Mohsin Hamid
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. - Meryl Streep
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. - Mehmet Oz
All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy. - Samantha Power
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. - Daniel Goleman
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
It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy. - Stewart Butterfield
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. - Laura Linney
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. - Gary Bauer
All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. - Gloria Steinem
It doesn't hurt to show some empathy. John Cornyn
Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do. - Erin Gruwell
The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency. - Julie Andrews
Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it. - Paul Bloom
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. - Barbara Kingsolver
I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy. - John Connolly
The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea. - Jonathan Groff
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. - Jill Lepore
What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people. - Liam Cunningham
Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy. - Claire Danes
When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. - Claire Danes
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems. - Roger Ebert
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' - George McGovern
With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy. - Jonathan Groff
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer. - Paul Haggis
Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic. - W. Kamau Bell
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters. - Mia Wasikowska
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying. - Nathan Englander
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. - Laura Carmichael
We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy. - Wendy Kopp
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. - Gary Bauer
Other species help children develop empathy. - Richard Louv
We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. - Bill Drayton
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. - Barbara Kingsolver
The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea. - Jonathan Groff
What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people. - Liam Cunningham
True contentment comes with empathy. - Tim Finn
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. - Roger Ebert
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. - Meryl Streep
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. - Jen Knox
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. - Sue Miller
Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck. - Anthon St. Maarten
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. - Karen Armstrong
Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance. - Suzy Kassem
Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom. - Suzy Kassem
How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. - Margaret Atwood
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. - Derrick A. Bell
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability. - Vernor Vinge
I can empathize with characters. Real people are harder. Real people don’t have concise character arcs. - Francesca Zappia
Compassion, empathy and consideration for others creates an environment of positivity where everything blooms, blossoms, thrives and prospers. Always try and create such an atmosphere. - Latika Teotia
It is better to feel pity than to learn how not to feel it. - Marty Rubin
Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. - Akiroq Brost
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. - Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the highest qualification one can obtain in order to genuinely love. - John Maiorana
Less apathy, more empathy. - Scott Stabile
Empathy is more powerful than sympathy. - Angie Thomas
Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz
When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions. - Sunday Adelaja
Empathy is easier than anger, in the long-run. - Sam Owen
Compassion can be learned through example. - Renae A. Sauter
Choose empathy over apathy. - Mango Wodzak
Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish. - Abhijit Naskar
Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life. - Sandra Vischer
Like any value, empathy must be acted upon. - Barack Obama
Truth is on the side of compassion. - Christina Hoff Sommers
Digital is the age of empathy. - Pearl Zhu
Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever. - Vironika Tugaleva
Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom. - Suzy Kassem
When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs. - Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves. - Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness. - Peter A. Levine
Mankind needs more empathy. - Philip K. Dick
That's the thing about empathy—even people with an abundance of it can run out. - Theresa Brown
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally. - George Eliot
Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy. - Narcissismus Decimus Maximus
Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking. - Joseph Fink
Empathy is the door to wisdom. - Suzy Kassem
Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough. - Leslie Jamison
Fear trumps empathy. - Cindy Aime
Empathy is a creative act. - Michele Jennae
Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. - Frans de Waal
Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity. - Jennifer Tindugan
Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed. - Chris Matakas
Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy. - Pearl Zhu
You don't have to go through someone's pain to understand it. Empathy is enough. - Saru Singhal
Fiction gives us empathy. - Neil Gaiman
The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it. - Donna Lynn Hope
Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. - Leslie Jamison
Empathy is the stepping stone to respect. - Vusi JCK Maseko
Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy. - Ella Leya
We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathy. - Rebecca Solnit
Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct. - Dean Cavanagh
Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys. - Victor LaValle
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