Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!"
Sympathetic quotes
Sympathetic
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation."
Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires."
Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy."
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"Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour."
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"The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic."
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"I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others."
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