Paulo Freire Quotes

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

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

When people feel they’re heard and understood, they’ll listen.

We must lead, but we must listen.

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

When people do come face to face with each other as human beings, they begin to understand each other better.

I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.