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“To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.”

Knows Should Persons Two Hate Evil Love Is Compassion Virtue Ignorance Intelligent Intelligence Superiors Cruelty Arrogance Intolerance Gentleness Forbearance Intelligent Person

Author:J. Martin Klotsche

“Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.”

People Humans Persons Fighting Understanding Human Beings Compassion Enemy Violence Ignorance Injustice Tendencies Exploits

Book:Anger

Source: Anger

“May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.”

May Suffering Compassion Ignorance

Author:Gautama Buddha

“When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.”

Bigs Compassion Ignorance Materials Damage Kicks Revealing Neon Neon Sign

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance. This is why we're trying to get out. This is why the bodhisattva has meaning. Because we're saying, no we won't get out, we won't escape until we've helped all other beings to escape, but most other beings don't even want to escape. They don't even know that there is an escape, and it's hard, so it's going to take an awfully long time.”

Knows Want Trying Long Hard Pain Suffering Causes Compassion Ignorance Long Time Incredibles Saying No Pain And Suffering Bodhisattva

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance which breeds hatred, whether it be in America, or Afghanistan, or anywhere. We owe it to our children that we may give them all a legacy of peace, but it will take courage and compassion.”

Giving Children Sometimes Compassion Enemy Ignorance Hatred Our Children Legacy Afghanistan

Author:Greg Mortenson

“We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.”

Needs Suffering Compassion Support Conditions Ignorance Bitterness Holding On Clinging Negligence Courage To Change

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

Compassion Moral Wise Ignorance Morality Forgiveness Ethics Bases Caring Pessimism

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

Way Helping Action Earth Beautiful Faces Life Is Fall Compassion Ignorance Comfort Misery Degradation Fall Back Beautiful Earth

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

Sometimes Feelings Joy Peace Compassion Ignorance Forgiveness Capacity Skins Kindness And Compassion Peace And Joy Compassion For Yourself

Author:Frederick Buechner

“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.”

“Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.”

Country Animal Compassion Dog Ignorance Members Welfare Betray Civilisation Animal Welfare Lethargy Roving

Book:Young India, 1924-1926

Source: Young India, 1924-1926

“Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.”

“We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.”

Reason Past Compassion Kindness Ignorance Mere Ideology

Author:Ron Reagan