Quotes About Tolerance

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

The Millennials, as a result, are less likely to be divided or even torn asunder by the culture wars of the boomer generation. They will live naturally with diversity. They will accept a more activist government. They will be more attuned to environmental needs. All this points in the direction of the mindful economy, if the healing strengths of the Millennial generation's tolerance and optimism are mobilized for collective political action. What

If more open-minded Christians, Jews, and Muslims were to sit down at a round table to try to achieve the holy grail of peace and unity, they would certainly have to be people of vision, willing to compromise.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend. The times call for great things, but great things in the noblest and most redemptive sense are predicted upon tolerance, love, respect, understanding, dignity, prayer, God.

The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ability. The same is obviously and especially true of sexual orientation. It is the market that rewards people who put aside their biases and seek gains through trade. This is why states devoted to racialist and hateful policies always resort to violence in control of the marketplace.

As Scott Stratten, author of UnMarketing says: "Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer.

Love refuses to deny or dismantle another's perspective simply because I don't share it.

When Jesus' followers asked what to do about the weeds in the harvest field, He said to treat them the same as the wheat, 'because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them' (Matthew 13:29)... We are only qualified to administer mercy, not judgment, because we will pull up many a beautiful stalk of wheat, imagining him a weed.

Imagine what our world would be life if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren't threatened by other people's opinions or skin colours or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.

Think to yourself, "What do I have to do or not do, or think or not think, right now, to be happy?" And if the answer is "let the jackass think he's right," then so be it.

A narrow-minded man can lead one to devalue others, and in the end, to desperately dangerous hates of outsiders, ranging in expression from discrimination against minorities to world conflagrations,' Tolman wrote. The solution? Create broader cognitive maps in the mind that encompass bigger geographical boundaries and a wider social scope, embracing those we might consider others, and in this way encourage empathy and understanding.

Sorry, Ian," Cameron said. He found himself saying that to Ian quite a bit. "I didn't understand." Ian gave him a faint nod but didn't answer. His look told Cameron that he knew his older brother was an idiot, but he'd learned to put up with it.