Richard L. Evans Quotes

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

I will never actually be able to know what it's like to go through life in someone else's body.

We can only know others by ourselves.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

How can one know anything at all about people?

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

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 best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.

If I have any strength that would be considered above average, it is that I can read people.

I've been able to read people real good throughout my life.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?