Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Hear the other side.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.

You don't see people that are willing to say 'You know what, you might be different politically, but let's find some common ground, let's find ways that we're actually similar.' We just assume immediately that we have nothing in common, what can even talk to that person about.

Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.

We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.

When you reach across the aisle and open your heart and mind, you might just find that you have more in common than you think with the guy on the other side of the fence.

Differences of opinion are healthy and they're a part of what makes our democracy great. We grow by understanding each other's differences.

I'm very respectful of people's views. I know that they're deeply held, and I'd like to hope that people are respectful of my deeply held views.

And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.