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If you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
--The Languages of Pao, by Jack Vance


True? False?

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Read the quote again. It doesn't say "understand" anywhere. It says "... you cannot dislike him." I (and I venture to say most of the people who voted false) would agree with you that if you are able to think as someone else does, then you would certainly understand them. That doesn't mean that you would necessarily like them. I would argue that it's unrelated, which makes the statement false.