Quotes About Understanding

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

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.

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

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.

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

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

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

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.

When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.