"It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering, than it is to have sympathy with thought." — Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man under Socialism" (1891)

The entire sentence from this article, runs:

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the function of criticism, it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. “
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