Our Sympathy Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

• Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for… — John Dufresne
• The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an… — Martha Stout
• We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free. — William H. Seward
• To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World… — Joseph Needham
• Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year. — Orison Swett Marden
• No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn… — Samuel Johnson
• Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have… — Eamon de Valera
• Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only… — Nikki Haley
• We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the… — Davy Crockett
• Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. — Edward Gibbon
• We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the… — Davy Crockett
• ...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. — Helen Keller
• Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most… — Thomas Mann
• We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility — William Hazlitt
• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump… — Iain McGilchrist

Who Wrote These Our Sympathy Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Our Sympathy Quotes as follows:

• 2 Our Sympathy Quotes by Davy Crockett
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by John Dufresne
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Martha Stout
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by William H. Seward
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Joseph Needham
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Orison Swett Marden
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Eamon de Valera
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Nikki Haley
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Edward Gibbon
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Helen Keller
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Thomas Mann
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 Our Sympathy Quote by Iain McGilchrist