“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
Source: The Candymakers
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Ian Maclaren (1850–1907) British theologian and writer
The British Weekly, 1897. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
Attributed to Plato in No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life (1992) by Dan Millman. It has also been wrongly attributed to Philo. It is a variant of the Christmas message "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle," written by the Scottish preacher Ian Maclaren (also known as John Watson) in 1897. <br class="br"> Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
Philo (-15–45 BC) Roman philosopher
Attributed to Philo in How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir (1999) by Dan Wakefield. It has also been wrongly attributed to Plato and Ephrem the Syrian. It is a variant of the Christmas message "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle," written by the Scottish preacher Ian Maclaren (also known as John Watson) in 1897. <br class="br"> Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Plato said, be kind to everyone you meet for we are all fighting difficult battles.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Styxx
“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”
Carol Plum-Ucci (1957) American writer
Source: What Happened to Lani Garver
Oswald Mosley (1896–1980) British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists
Speech in Earls Court (July 1939). http://www.oswaldmosley.com/audio/earlscourt.m3u
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author
1990s, Schafer interview (1995)
Context: Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. Take the AEGIS system in the navy. It's a radar computer system for air-battle management. What it does is give the commander an extra 15 minutes to decide what he's going to do to fight a battle, and those 15 minutes are decisively important.
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 2
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 01