Terry Pratchett Quotes

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

The ability to understand people is a choice.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Keep this question in mind: 'What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other person?' It paves the way to more successful action.

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

Looking at him like that, I felt like I needed something from him, or somebody, and that probably meant that he also needed something from me, or somebody, but the revelation was like looking at spots on a slide. Knowing that it meant something to somebody wasn't the same as it meaning something to you.

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.