sympathy quotes

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.