Forgiveness Quote by Mary McCarthy

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

— Doris Lessing

“Understanding is not the same as forgiving”

— Bhavana Kale

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

— Rebecca West

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

— Madame de Stael

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

— Alexander Chase

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

— Lewis B. Smedes

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

— Gautama Buddha

To understand is to forgive.

— Anonymous

We almost always forgive those we understand.

— Mikhail Lermontov

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

— Leo Tolstoy

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

— David Small

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

— Emma Goldman