Peter Singer Quotes

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as in humanity - I have been able to learn more about what is "good" and "bad" than by listening to most people's views about good and bad.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.