Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

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

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.