“She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably after you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes—although, of course, if you had walked a mile in their shoes, then you would be a mile away, and you would have their shoes, and so the understanding would, in a mechanical sense, be all on your side.”

Terry Pratchett - A hat full of sky