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Quotes About Tolerance

Most of the positive things in life are often preceded by negatvities, paradoxically. For example, we gain strength only after realizing our weaknesses. We learn to love unconditionally only after experiencing the hate directed towards us. We become more tolerant and proponents of equality only after the discrimination that world throws at us. We thus grow and mature with the flow of life, always negating the negativity, and moving upwards and onwards.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
No disability in the world can outweigh one's inadequacy to treat people with dignity, equality and respect - regardless of their color, creed, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Pas de handicap dans le monde peut l'emporter sur l'un de l'incapacité à traiter les gens avec dignité, d'égalité et de respect - quelle que soit leur couleur, de croyance, le sexe, la race, la religion et l'orientation sexuelle.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
The most important lesson I've learnt is that you should always treat people exactly they themselves wish to be treated.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
I love you all, even those I don't particularly like. That's you, Beryl.
~ Derek Landy
Valkyrie: "Not everyone sees things the way you do." Kenspeckle: "And what have I always told you about other people?" Valkyrie: (grinning) "They're idiots.
~ Derek Landy
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
~ Swami Vivekananda
One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.
~ Anthony Douglas
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
~ Chuck Tanner
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
~ Laozi
We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.
~ Scott Belsky
All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
~ Leonard Carmichael
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
~ Doris Lessing
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
~ Wilfred Bion
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.
~ Bruce Lee
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
~ Edmund Wilson
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
~ Henry Miller
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
~ Barbara Tuchman