Sympathetic Quotes

237 quotes by 213 authors

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of… — George Washington Carver
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic,… — Lee Child
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own… — Ed Koch
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets… — William James
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings… — Henry Ward Beecher
For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she… — Jung Chang
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness.… — Stephen Levine
Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole!… — Marcus Aurelius
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he… — Immanuel Kant
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured,… — Saint John Chrysostom
There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the… — Henryk Skolimowski
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening… — Berthold Auerbach
How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love… — Deacon Jones
It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic… — Albert Watson
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.… — Albert Einstein
I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible,… — Jose Mujica
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners… — George Washington

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