Quotes About Understanding

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.