quotations about empathy
Empathy is the feeling that "I might be you" or "I am you," but it is more than just an intellectual identification; empathy must be accompanied by feeling. Sympathy brings compassion, "I want to help you," but empathy brings emotion. Without feeling there is no empathy.
HOWARD M. SPIRO
Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel
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
Empathy won't work with reason
Empathy's just a common feeling
TIM BOOTH
"Careful What You Say", Bone
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