The more you learn about someone, how could you not want…

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

— Jesmyn Ward

“People's sense of self worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they've caused. The more solid one's sense of…

— Harriet Lerner

“Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Humans who attend directly to vivid cases [of inequality] are capable of great empathy with inequality losers. They are also capable of great compassion…

— Robin Hanson

As a chef and avid traveler, meeting new people and sharing a meal with the intent to learn more about their culture is important…

— Marcela Valladolid

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and…

— Yao Ming

African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school…

— Tracie Thoms

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's…

— Ramin Bahrani

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think it's important to learn about the culture of the place where you live.

— Freddie Ljungberg

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about…

— Marina Warner

“More important than raw size is what we can do with our brains, such as communicate with complex language and learn through culture.”

— John Durant

You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother…

— John Henrik Clarke

I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My…

— Marina and the Diamonds

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

— Sandra Cisneros