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Blaise Pascal 144
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Chri… 1623–1662Related quotes
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“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
Misattributed
“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
Leo
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.”
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.”
“I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
