Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you
Susan Sarandon
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
Stephen Covey
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
Barack Obama
When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
Stephen R. Covey
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.
Henry Reed
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 his angle as well as your own.
Henry Ford
I don't believe that children are born with empathy. It is something they learn by seeing it modeled by others.
Jacqui Rivait
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them
Katherine Ellison