Erich Fromm Quotes

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.

Jack appreciates people on a very, very sophisticated and deep level.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

We need to be more sensitive to each other.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

People don’t care what you know until they know that you care.

I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings.

People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.

We need to be a bit kinder and more aware of what is really important.

If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.