Quotes About Tolerance

What you tolerate you can not change

Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

As good as the people are in your life, there are no perfect people. There is no perfect boss, no perfect friend, no perfect neighbor, no perfect spouse. Give people room to be human. Quit expecting them to perform perfectly all the time.

Where is the love that will overlook a person's faults?

No matter what the discussion is about

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up.

People are individuals, not groups. We either live together as such, or we abandon any hope of civilisation.

never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity'.

All species had some degree of xenophobia hardwired into their brains, even toward aliens they'd come to like. But just as one couldn't be brave in the absence of fear, neither could one be tolerant in the absence of genuine difference.

Thomas eyed the array of hair products on the corner of the tub and snorted. "God, I forget sometimes how gay you are.

Tålamod är en av de viktigaste dygderna.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Empathy makes progress possible, and every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Los dolores serían menores entre los hombres si éstos (Dios sabe por qué están hechos así) no se ocuparan con tanto ahínco de imaginación en evocar los recuerdos de los males pasados en vez de soportar un presente tolerable.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.