empathy

Education, from Addams' perspective, must not merely make us more adept at defending ourselves against those with different agendas. Education should increase our powers of empathy and our ability to act in concert with others.

I think that we have to create in ourselves, through critical analysis of our practice, some qualities, some virtues as educators. One of them, for example, is the quality of becoming more and more open to feel the feelings of others, to become so sensitive that we can guess what the group or one person is thinking at that moment.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Empathy is the door to wisdom.

When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.

Before you assume, learn. Before you judge, understand. Before you hurt, feel. Before you say, think.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge_ is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another__ world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.