Quotes About Understanding

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.