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Blaise Pascal144
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Chri… 1623–1662Related quotes
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
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
Misattributed
“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Leo
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“I cannot forgive, but I understand.”
Christopher Paolini book Inheritance
Nasuada, on the actions of Murtagh
Inheritance (2011)
“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.”
Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation
“And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
“I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches
