quotations about empathy
Empathy won't work with reason
Empathy's just a common feeling
TIM BOOTH
"Careful What You Say", Bone
Empathy is always guesswork. We cannot know how the other person feels. However, we do attempt to imagine feelings, which we presume are connected with the issues in the story we have been told.
PIET DRAIBY & KIRSTEN SEIDENFADEN
The Vibrant Relationship
Empathy is a powerful behavior of nurturing. When it is given properly, the receiver can feel that the giver really cares about them, and that what they are going through is not trivial.
WILLIAM E. KRILL
Gentling
The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.
CHARLES WAGNER
Justice
Empathy enables us to collapse the dualistic structures that polarize our world into "us" and "them".
VIRGINIA C. FOWLER
foreword, The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni