Is it more important to be right than kind?

“To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.”

When you have to choose between being right and being kind?

“If you have a choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.” This quote by Dr. Dyer, introduced as a precept by Mr. Browne, on the first day of school in Wonder, set the tone for the rest of the year at Beecher Prep.

Why should we choose to be kind?

It allows us to connect with other people and build meaningful relationships. When someone does us a kindness, we feel connected and more willing to cooperate with them. When we do something nice for someone, we cultivate trust, and we feel good about ourselves for being a kind person.

Is it important to be kind?

Why is kindness important? When we practice kindness either to other people or towards ourselves we can experience positive mental and physical changes through lowering stress levels and increasing the body’s production of feel-good hormones such as dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin.

What does it mean by being right?

It’s about being curious, listening, learning and finding the best solution, not your solution. It requires time and effort and often sometimes a lot of both. On the contrary, being right is making a situation about yourself, showing or proving to others that what you think and know is right.

What is a good quote from Wonder?

1. “When given the choice between being right or being kind choose kind.” 2. “I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”

Should you always be kind?

Kindness leads to many good things like better relationships, improved self-esteem, compassion, happiness, future success, and good mental and physical health. Kindness provides many benefits to a human being and below is a list of these benefits explained in a bit more detail.

Should you be kind to everyone?

Kindness and empathy help us relate to other people and have more positive relationships with friends, family, and even perfect strangers we encounter in our daily lives. Besides just improving personal relationships, however, kindness can actually make you healthier.

Why is kindness so powerful?

Is it important to be right?

Being right affirms and inflates our sense of self-worth. As students we learn to avoid as best we can the embarrassment of being wrong. Getting the right answer becomes the primary purpose of our education. This would be a most wonderful learning experience.

Is being a good thing always the right thing to do?

Yes, a good thing is always the right thing to do. The problem is in defining a good thing. It is not always the same as a nice or kind thing. For you to refuse to buy an alcoholic a drink might not be nice, but it’s perhaps good; for you to wrestle away his car keys as he tries to leave might not be kind, but it’s also probably good.

Is it possible to do the right thing with Good Intent?

You can do the right thing with good intent, but produce unintended consequences that are not good. And vice versa. We control our actions, but not always the results. But still, you did a good thing by trying to do the right thing.

How do you learn to do the right thing?

Commit to embracing the idea that doing the right thing is always the right thing. Play with this idea for a week. Do nothing but the right thing even if it means you lose, don’t get what you want or have to be uncomfortable because of the decision.

Is kindness the right thing to do?

Kindness, or as the Oxford Dictionary put it, is the act of being friendly, generous and considerate. “The right thing” to do would encompass all these and more – and I fail to see any situation in which being right doesn’t entail being kind. A squirrel was hit by a bike.