George Eliot Quotes

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

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.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

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 do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

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

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

Compassion takes imagination.

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

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.

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

And as such, we need to be empathetic and understanding.

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.

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.