James Truslow Adams Quotes

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'