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Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Walter Lippmann

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

Jennifer Lynch

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

William Macneile Dixon

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

Francois Fenelon

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Fred Rogers

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people’s.

Mason Cooley

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

Maya Angelou

I’ve met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Maya Rudolph

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Completely understand the customer by seeking an intense, complete and empathetic understanding.

Michael J. Silverstein

You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one.

Michael Jackson

Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

Leslie Jamison

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

1st Baron Kenyon

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

Lucinda Williams

It didn’t matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other

W. Craig Zwick

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you’re not.

Michael Ondaatje

It isn’t easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

Michelangelo Antonioni

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Gary Shteyngart

May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

Gautama Buddha

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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