Best Sympathy Wisdom
1011 Sympathy quotes by 757 unique authors
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
— Oscar Wilde
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If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred,…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love…
— Timothy Keller
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The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones.…
— William H. Whyte
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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
— William Wordsworth
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Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
— Louise J. Kaplan
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War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
— Zoroaster
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We accumulate pain, collect it. ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we…
— Marlena De Blasi
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
— Barbara Sher
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So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy…
— Florence Littauer
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for…
— Ashly Lorenzana
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Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."
— Calvin Coolidge
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I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite…
— Herbert Hoover
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Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy…
— Ivor Novello
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Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood…
— Seneca the Younger
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A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for…
— Ming-Dao Deng
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The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter…
— Tony Blair
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Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I…
— Jiang Zemin
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Irrespective of the conflict with America it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American people, and be with them at these horrifying…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just…
— Jonathan Haidt
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections…
— Charles Darwin
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