Mahershala Ali Quotes

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

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.

Some public officials are blessed - you can't acquire this, but you are blessed with the gift of empathy, being able to empathize with those who are suffering.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

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

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

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

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

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

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

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.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.