Fred Rogers Quotes

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

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

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

Keep this question in mind: 'What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other person?' It paves the way to more successful action.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.