Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

It is a funny thing how hard it is to see the other fellow's point of view.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

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.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

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.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.

A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

When you see yourself as the center of things, it deprives you of a certain level of empathy.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.