You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Although often misattributed to Walt Disney, this line expresses a critique of ethnocentrism: the tendency to treat one’s own appearance, culture, or worldview as the default measure of “real” humanity. The second sentence proposes empathy as a corrective—imagining life from another person’s position (“walk the footsteps of a stranger”) expands moral understanding and reveals previously unrecognized knowledge (“you never knew you never knew”). The phrasing underscores how limited experience can conceal entire categories of insight, and how perspective-taking can be both humbling and transformative.