Quotes About Tolerance

You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

Learning an alien culture from so deeply inside it, he could no longer accept the superiority of one particular belief or value system. To

If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge-a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral. --Arthur Schopenhauer

you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge

In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture.

People are more complex than you imagine. Your goal is to simply see their point of view better. As you go through this process, it becomes like a muscle that gets stronger the more you exercise it.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path.

Accept People as Facts

Instead, see other people as phenomena, as neutral as comets or plants. They simply exist. They come in all varieties, making life rich and interesting. Work with what they give you, instead of resisting and trying to change them.

never inadvertently draw attention to the bothersome insect that will go away or die on its own.

In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture. All of us have foolish sides, moments in which we lose our heads and think more of our ego or short-term goals. It is human nature. Seeing this foolishness within you, you can then accept it in others. This will allow you to smile at their antics, to tolerate their presence as you would a silly child, and to avoid the madness of trying to change them.

The world is full of fools—people who cannot wait to get results, who change with the wind, who can't see past their noses. You encounter them everywhere: the indecisive boss, the rash colleague, the hysterical subordinate. When working alongside fools, do not fight them. Instead think of them the way you think of children, or pets, not important enough to affect your mental balance.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

How much longer, Catilina, will you try our patience

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end........Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.

Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color--by making point of how they don't care.

Life is too short to put up with assholes.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

What can't be changed must be endured.

There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.

Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.