Michael Foot Quotes

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

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

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

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

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Compassion begins with attention.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. 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.'

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.