Forgiveness Quote by Lewis B. Smedes

“Understanding is not the same as forgiving”

— Bhavana Kale

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

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

— Madame de Stael

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

— Doris Lessing

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

— Anonymous

To understand is to forgive.

— Anonymous

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

— Alexander Chase

Forgiving is just the first step...Its just the forgetting part that makes me trip and fall...

— Anonymous

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I can always forgive where I understand.

— Jude Morgan

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

— Emma Goldman

Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

— Bob Rae