Quotes About Sympathy

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

Donald Trump has no sympathy with underdogs. They, including the Palestinians, are just "losers." So he will bring words and action together as Netanyahu wishes.