You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

"First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find the character easy to read, we are reading into it our own character.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

In the course of a long experience of the human race, I have learned that you can never make them understand anything, unless you rub it in.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So, as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual.

"Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, "I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

To know someone deeply
is to know a universe
contained in skin.

Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself.

If you have the impression that you know the other person inside and out, you are wrong. Are you sure that you even know yourself? Every person is a world to explore.