Quotes about Perspective

I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.

It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.

She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.

To say that that which was true in the 17th century cannot possibly be true today, because we travel in jet planes while they traveled in horse carts—is like saying that modern men do not need food, as men did in the past, because they are wearing trenchcoats and slacks, instead-of powdered wigs and hoop skirts.

What kind of 'changing world', Alvah? Changing to what? From what? Who's doing the changing?

God sees the world through the eyes of those most oppressed.

The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.

I'd never once heard her dwell on the disappointments. Instead she seemed to find small pleasures everywhere.

And you won't have to wake up at four in the morning," she said, a point that I found most compelling.

He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after your mother. He can't know me, not the way I know him. Maybe some of these Hawaiians can, or the Indians on the reservation. They've seen their fathers humiliated. Their mothers desecrated. But your grandfather will never know what that feels like.

Making Compassionate Decisions: The Role of Empathy in Decision Making READING TIME: 19 MINUTES "The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.