Quotes by Empathy Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them. Aberjhani empathy compassion humanity We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. Abraham Flexner empathy liberty play 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 specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism. Abraham Verghese empathy sight school A sketch of a man facing to the right. Adam Smith empathy men The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do. Adam Smith dancer empathy balance As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation. Adam Smith empathy men ideas That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. Adam Smith empathy hurt fall Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest. Adam Smith empathy eye men The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned. Adam Smith empathy passion fall My wish list is pretty short. I wish that we had empathy. As a society, we are so wrapped up in our own artificial creations that we have become disconnected from one another and the wonder of our natural world. I truly believe that empathy is the key to solving the majority of our environmental and social problems. Adrian Grenier empathy wish believe I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family I feel, so my empathy is strong for mankind in general. Aeriel Miranda empathy strong personality Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime. Albert Einstein empathy eye school Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. Albert Schweitzer empathy light white One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy. Alex Blumberg empathy creating thinking 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 empathy hard-times believe In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. Alexander Pope empathy lazy apathy seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. Alfred Adler empathy eye heart Anguish is the universal language. Alice Fulton anguish empathy language Empathy grows as we learn. Alice Miller empathy grows If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other. Alicia Keys empathy different people 1234567891011»
