Reggie Watts Quotes

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people.

I love reading about other people's world view.

And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

Respecting differences is very difficult.

Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

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.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.