All 10 Uses
empathy
in
This I Believe
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- Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy.†
Chpt 1empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
- These ideals and convictions—results of historical experience, empathy, and the need for beauty and harmony—have usually been willingly recognized by human beings, at least in theory.†
Chpt 18
- I BELIEVE IN EMPATHY.†
Chpt 54
- I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships.†
Chpt 54
- It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy.†
Chpt 54
- Whenever I think of the word "empathy," I think of a small boy named Huckleberry Finn contemplating his friend and runaway slave, Jim.
Chpt 54 *
- No amount of political correctness can make us empathize with a child left orphaned in Darfur or a woman taken to a football stadium in Kabul and shot to death because she is improperly dressed.†
Chpt 54empathize = to understand or share in another's feelingsstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.†
Chpt 54empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
- I believe that it is only through empathy that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child, or an Iraqi prisoner becomes real to me and not just passing news.†
Chpt 54
- It's as if there were some primordial expectation of empathy and cooperation that helps the species survive.†
Chpt 71
Definitions:
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(1)
(empathy) the ability, tendency, or act of understanding and sharing another's emotional state
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)