I urge you to be curious enough to want to understand how the people who see things differently from you came to see them that way.

...human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. I've also learned that judging people before really seeing things through their eyes stands in the way of understanding their circumstances — and that isn't smart. I urge you to be curious enough to want to understand how the people who see things differently from you came to see them that way. You will find that interesting and invaluable, and the richer perspective you gain will help you decide what you should do.

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

looking at things from other people’s point of view is practically the secret of success.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.

There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

In other words, I look through my eyes and see only a version of the world, a version that can be, and often is, colored or twisted by what I want to see. Another person may witness the same events, and yet observe something entirely different.

Practice empathy. Try to see things from other people's points of view.

She said my problem was that I saw things in people that they didn’t see in themselves.

Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a manner the shapes of all things as they must live together like one being