Common Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

— Baltasar Gracian

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art…

— Bryant H. McGill

“genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous”

— Laura Fitzgerald

“Mirroring makes speech possible; language relies on the reflective quality of I and you through which verbal interaction becomes possible.”

— Siri Hustvedt

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.

— Shakti Gawain

The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Mirroring is especially helpful when our differences may divide. Think of the times when you have made a diligent effort to speak in another…

— Susan C. Young

“This idea (Taqwa)can be effectively conveyed by the term "conscience," if the object of conscience transcends it. This is why it is proper to…

— Fazlur Rahman

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion…

— Nikolai Berdyaev