“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”
Others on Empathy
Brené Brown
2 quotes“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
Walt Whitman
2 quotes“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2 quotes“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to dis...”
John Green
2 quotes“On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we...”
Meryl Streep
2 quotes“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
Atticus Poetry
2 quotes“Don't worry— you see, to some you are magic.”
Lady Gaga
1 quote“I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matt...”
Barack Obama
1 quote“Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.”
Tennessee Williams
1 quote“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one...”
St. Francis of Assisi
1 quote“Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.”
Marcel Proust
1 quote“People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.”
Booker T. Washington
1 quote“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”