As men, we can never fully understand the experience women go through.
I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?
I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing what it would be like because you can't stop yourself from hearing your own breath or your own heartbeat. You can not remove sound entirely from your life. You can get a sense of what being blind is like by closing and covering your eyes which provides a source of empathy because we can all project ourselves to that. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't.
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.
It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.
A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
