Elbert Hubbard Quotes

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is 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.

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

Compassion takes imagination.

I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.

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."

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.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.

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.

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

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

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

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

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.

A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

The best way to break down that fear is to spend time with somebody, put yourself in somebody else's shoes, understand what the other person is going through.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.