Joe Lonsdale Quotes

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Read things to not just know what's going on, but see it from different varying viewpoints.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.