556 – “To desire and expect nothing for oneself—and to have profound sympathy for others—is genuine holiness.”

–Ivan Turgenev

435 – “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy and sympathy, not religion.”

–anonymous

174 – “Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend out egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”

–Bill Bullard