Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Fiennes

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Teju Cole

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.

Randall Jarrell

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

Leslie Jamison

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

Leslie Jamison

Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

Walt Whitman

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Tim Finn

True contentment comes with empathy.

Stephen Covey

Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.

Stephen Covey

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Stephen Covey

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

Tariq Ramadan

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.

Rebecca Solnit

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Yoko Ono

Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy.

Zadie Smith

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.