Quotes About Understanding

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

Even a witch wants sympathy.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.