Empathy Quotes

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Harper Lee

"The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world."

Bill Bullard

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another."

Alfred Adler

"An enemy is one whose story we have not heard."

Gene Knudsen Hoffman

“See things from the boy's point of view.”

“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”

“I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.”

“You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.”

“The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognising what they sense.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

"The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals."

"The movies are like a machine that generates empathy."

Roger Ebert

"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."

Meryl Streep

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

Meryl Streep

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

Harper Lee

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

Baruch Spinoza

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

Henry Ford

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

Harper Lee

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality.”

Sterling K. Brown

“The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

Steve Jobs

“Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.”

Don Norman

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

Stephen Covey