Top 1200 Empathy And Understanding Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future - an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.

When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus.

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

We think empathy is innate, but it's not. It's a muscle you're working.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

Empathy is the key to great stories.

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

Intercultural understanding is a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum. The deployment of technology opens up opportunities for global partnerships and collaboration to grow, increasing opportunities for greater understanding between cultures.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.

Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President... [b]ecause I don't believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it's a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what's at stake here.

A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad - to a structural understanding.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one.

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

I think his deepest quality is empathy.

Empathy is an uncomfortable force in politics.

Art, when done well, creates empathy.