Simon Baron-Cohen Quotes

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

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

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

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

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings.

Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.