empathy Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.