Philip Kitcher Quotes

I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.

I don't want people to judge books by their cover, I want people to be open minded to the rest of the world.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one's own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

I don't have much patience with sick people.

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Men do very little from love, a great deal from hate, most of all from indifference.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people.