Ann Coulter Quotes

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

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.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

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

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

I think I'm always trying to see the other's point of view, dealing in a very heart-to-heart way.

There's a power in empathy.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.