Isaac Asimov Quotes

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

He who knows himself knows others.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.