William Hazlitt Quotes

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

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

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

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.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

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

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

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.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.