Quotes about Understanding
As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set... then the flavor is gone.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.
— Germany Kent
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
— Mark Twain
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
— Dale Carnegie
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
— DL Moody
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
— Albert Schweitzer
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
— George Eliot
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.
— Napoleon Hill
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
— Graham Greene
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.
— Paulo Coelho
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
— Oscar Wilde
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
— DL Moody