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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. — Atticus Finch · 1962Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else? — Edie Doyle · 1954Drama (film)2 quotes
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. — Atticus Finch · 1962Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else? — Edie Doyle · 1954Philosophical literature2 quotes
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. — Adam Smith · 1759Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations... His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have thus adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels. — Adam Smith · 1759Crime1 quote
Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else? — Edie Doyle · 1954Crime (film)1 quote
Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else? — Edie Doyle · 1954Modernist literature1 quote
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. — Marcel Proust · 1922Political literature1 quote
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891