Dante Alighieri Quotes

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.

When your feet start to hurt, place yourself in someone else's shoes.

There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

The most important thing that each of us can do is to try even harder to see the world through our neighbor's eyes.

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you.

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

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

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.