Margaret Bourke-White Quotes

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

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

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

He who knows himself knows others.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

The world looks different and is understood differently at every spot on earth. Without accepting this simple truth it is hard for us to grasp the behavior of others, the motives and aims of those actions.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

When you can listen to others' perspectives, we can learn about the other people that make up this great country.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

As you grow older, you start looking at the bigger picture. You don't look at only yourself.