Quotes and Sayings About Empathy
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
-- Alex Flinn -
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
-- Alfred Adler -
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
-- Alison Gopnik -
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
-- Anderson Cooper -
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
-- Andrea Arnold -
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
-- Anita Roddick -
Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.
-- Ann Veneman -
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
-- Annie Lennox -
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.
-- Ansel Adams -
Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke -
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn ***** when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
-- Art Linkletter -
It takes a great man to make a great listener
-- Arthur Helps -
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
-- Arthur Koestler -
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
-- Barack Obama -
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
-- Barack Obama -
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
-- Ben Stein -
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.
-- Benjamin Percy -
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
-- Betty Edwards
