Richard Nixon Quotes

How can one know anything at all about people?

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.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

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

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

I don't think I'm a chameleon. I can feel where people are coming from, what makes them tick, where they are vulnerable, what makes them feel good about themselves. I get just as much out of it as they do. I love connecting.

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.

I love to learn about people.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

The wise are wise only because they love.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.