"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe." ― Florence Nightingale Topic(s): Sympathy More From Florence Nightingale "The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality." "I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse." More In Sympathy "We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."― Richard M. Nixon "Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children."― Michael Gove "Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout’s arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them."― Juliette Gordon Low