Believe Quote by Rebecca West

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

— Walter Lippmann

“My work expresses an infatuation with human beings. I don’t believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand…

— Rebecca West

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

Those who understand evil pardon it.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

— Anonymous

To understand is to forgive.

— Anonymous

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

— Madame de Stael

Pardon is granted to necessity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.

— George T. Conway III

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

— Charles Spurgeon

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon…

— Baldassare Castiglione

“Understanding is not the same as forgiving”

— Bhavana Kale