Paul Bloom Quotes

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.

I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.