“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Leo
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
This is generally reported as a French proverb, and one familiar as such in Russia as well, in many 19th and 20th century works; it seems to have first become attributed to Gautama Buddha without citation of sources in Farm Journal, Vol. 34 (1910), p. 417
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philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563–-483 BCRelated quotes
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Not a Kerouac quote, but by the Indian spiritual leader, Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007).
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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling…”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Source: Anna Karenina
“In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
D'ordinaire, ceux qui gouvernent les enfants ne leur pardonnent rien, et se pardonnent tout à eux-mêmes.
Traité de l'éducation des filles, ch. 5, cited from De l'éducation des filles, dialogues des morts et opuscules divers (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1857) p. 15; translation from Selections from the Writings of Fénelon (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829) p. 137. (1687).