George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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.

I'm the first person to shamelessly admit that I don't know it all. With that said, my attitude is if such that if I don't know something I want you to enlighten and inform me so we can grown and get somewhere together - even if that means we ultimately agree to disagree.

I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

If the Arab citizen will feel at home in our state … if the state will help him in a truthful and dedicated way to reach the economic, social, and cultural level of the Jewish community, then Arab distrust will accordingly subside and a bridge will be built to a Semitic, Jewish-Arab Alliance.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

I want people to get to know me, because I want to get to know them.

In life, with my friends, I don't see them as male or female; I just see them as people.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

We need to listen to one another.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.