Forgiveness Quote by Doris Lessing

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else…

— Mary McCarthy

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

— Alexander Chase

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

— Madame de Stael

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

— Leo Tolstoy

I can always forgive where I understand.

— Jude Morgan

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

— Gautama Buddha

“Understanding is not the same as forgiving”

— Bhavana Kale

We almost always forgive those we understand.

— Mikhail Lermontov

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

— Lewis B. Smedes

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

— Ben Kingsley

To understand is to forgive.

— Anonymous

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

— Emma Goldman