Quote of the Day by Mencius: Mencius’s quote connects four ordinary human feelings with the beginnings of four important moral qualities: compassion with benevolence, shame with righteousness, modesty with propriety, and the ability to approve or disapprove with knowledge. The point is not that feeling compassion automatically makes someone benevolent, or that feeling shame automatically makes someone righteous. Rather, these emotions are described as starting points that can be developed through judgment, conduct and practice.
Quote of the Day by Mencius: a meaningful lesson on empathy and exploring how ordinary human feelings become the foundation of character
Quote of the Day Today: “The feeling of compassion is the beginning of benevolence; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of modesty and complaisance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of approving and disapproving is the beginning of knowledge.”
— Mencius, The Works of Mencius , Book 2A:6
