Sympathy quotes

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Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

- Louise J. Kaplan

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

- William James

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

- Anne Sullivan

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

- Lillie Langtry

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

- Ivan Turgenev

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

- Irving Babbitt

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

- Seth Green

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

- John Hall

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

- Johnny Rotten

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

- Harold Bloom

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

- Bob Feller

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

- Oscar Wilde

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

- Daniel Johns

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

- Terry Prachett

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

- Goldwin Smith

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

- Erich von Stroheim

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

- Aneurin Bevan

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

- Morris Raphael Cohen

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

- Evelyn Underhill