Quotes About Tolerance

Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

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