#empathy

"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care"

"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."

"Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in."

"Anguish is the universal language"

"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination"

"A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see"

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."

"None of us can choose where we shall love..."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"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’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding."

"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

"Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems."

"Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people."

"A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument"

"Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters."

"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."

"Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment."

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

"A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother."