empathetic perception Quotes

The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.

Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.