Quotes About Sympathy

Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like...a feeling.

In those rare cases where trust ends in betrayal, those victimized by default to truth, deserve our sympathy, not censure.

They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.