Gennaro Gattuso Quotes

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

Unless someone has walked in your shoes, you really can't judge. Everyone needs to make the best choice for their life.

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

I try not to pass judgment on anyone, and I wish they wouldn't pass it on me.

You can't judge others. You never know what's going on in their mind or body.

I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people.

I had to realize that everyone has opinions, and they all have the right to feel a certain way, and you have to respect that.

I've never liked to judge other people in the hope that they won't judge me.

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.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

We must take our friends as they are.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.