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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.'

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

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

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.