Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

Perhaps it is as well to keep an open and charitable mind, and to try to understand why people do things instead of condemning the acts themselves

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

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

I realize you can't please everyone.

The closer people are to the truth, the more tolerant they are of the mistakes of others.

As I allow myself my own weaknesses, I should tolerate the weaknesses of others.

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

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

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.

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

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.