Quotes about Empathy
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
- Hannah More
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
- John Eldredge
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
- John Milton
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
- St. Augustine
Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.
- Thomas Merton
Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
- Dean Frazer
In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
- Abraham Lincoln
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
- Albert Schweitzer
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
- CS Lewis
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.
- Charles Spurgeon
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
- Cormac McCarthy