Empathy Quotes
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When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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True contentment comes with empathy.
Tim Finn
Crowded House
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I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of sympathy, empathy, reciprocity, a willingness to follow social rules. Dogs are a good example of a species that have and obey social rules; that's why we like them so much, even though they're large carnivores.
Frans de Waal
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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.
Barack Obama
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I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
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Any effective treatment—effective beyond placebo that is—will generate a specific effect plus a placebo effect, provided that clinicians administer it with sufficient time, dedication, compassion and empathy.
Edzard Ernst
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As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain image when we fight. Yet I would guess if someone were shooting at them and they had to hold their family members while they bled out against an enemy who hid behind their children, played dead only to throw a grenade as they got closer, and who had no qualms about sending their toddler to die from a grenade from which they personally pulled the pin....they would be less concerned with playing nicely.
Chris Kyle
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If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
Alicia Keys
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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.
Cynthia Nixon
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.
Alex Wolff
