Terry Pratchett Quotes

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

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."

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

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.

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

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

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

When your feet start to hurt, place yourself in someone else's shoes.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

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.

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.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.

That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam — Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.