Quotes from the book "How to know a Person" - David Brooks
This book is more like knowing yourself better even if you are NOT able to get better at knowing others. Good read definitely. A servant knows more about his master than the master knows about the servant. Respect is like air. When it's present nobody notices, but when it's absent it's all anybody can think about. A great conversation is between two people who think the other is wrong. A bad conversation is between those who think something is wrong with you. How you see a situation depends on what you are capable of doing in a situation. I am human, and nothing human is alien to me. A person who is perpetually angry is always mishearing and misreading others. First empathy skill is recognizing emotions/mirroring. The second empathy skill is not just mirroring but menatlizing. The third empahty skill is caring. You can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but you can't be wise with other men's wisdom. Grief is not a state but a process. Its a river tha...