Quotes About Sympathy

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

Often they win sympathy by a certain good-naturedness, a kindly involvement in other people's lives: selflessness as speculation.

It goes without saying that the artists sympathized not with the actual working classes, but with their own idea of the working classes, rather as Marie Antoinette wished to live not as a real shepherdess but as her romanticized conception of a shepherdess.

I now believe as sincerely as ever, for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.

for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.

Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.