Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Miliband

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

David Hume

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Deb Caletti

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Charles de Lint

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

Derrick Bell

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

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?

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

Empathy is the antidote to shame,

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Brian Tracy

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

Jane Fonda

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Daniel Goleman

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Ben Harper

There's something in everyone only they know.

Ben Harper

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

Adam Smith

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

I don't think you have to be from a region to have empathy for what people are going through.

I have a lot of empathy for them.

Kathie Gifford

I have been interviewed a lot. I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

Charles Kimball

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

Eckhart Tolle

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Cynthia Nixon

I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

Andre Gide

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Alice Miller

Empathy grows as we learn.

Alexander Pope

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

Dada Vaswani

Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

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.