Quotes About Tolerance

I think it's interesting to me to talk to people who don't agree with me all the time.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

Differences aren't a problem at all. We need all sorts of different kinds of people in the world to make things work right.

I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.

aucun autre dieu n'a inspiré à ses adorateurs le mépris et la haine de ceux qui prient à de différents autels.

il existait sans doute entre les inquiétes créatures humaines des répulsions et des haines surgies du plus profond de leur nature, et qui, le jour où il ne serait plus de mode de s'exterminer pour cause de religion, se donneraient cours autrement. (La promenade sur la dune)

Few men enjoy prolonged travel; it disrupts all habit and endlessly jolts all prejudice. Any tolerance shown to fanatics is immediately mistaken by them for sympathy with their cause. Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit.

In principle, all Islamic polities were (and are) required by Quranic injunction not to harm the dhimmi, to tolerate the Christians and Jews living in their midst.

having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world

I resist all temptation today to judge how I think others should behave. I cannot know the deeper forces at work within anyone's heart. My deliverance comes from accepting all people, not judging or controlling them.

No matter what the problem, the solution is love.

In these enlightened times, mademoiselle, we only believe what is agreeable to us, and what suits our own wishes, tastes, and opinions. Ca va sans dire. We cannot be forced to accept a Deity against our reason. That is a grand result of modern education.

But where is it written in the Gospel that we are instructed to hate anyone, however erroneous their beliefs might be?

Some dogs bite. So you keep them away from people. You can't just get rid of them, for being the way they are. And now and then you can be glad to have them around, to snarl the way a good dog never does.

So many of earth's grievances could be soothed by a little consideration.

Religion could quiet our antagonisms if we let it be what it is fundamentally and at best.

Tolerance of ambiguity is a necessary condition for creativity.

The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.

No profieras amenaza alguna. Razona con la gente.» El arte del razonamiento consistía en desoír todos los insultos, todas las amenazas; algo así como poner la otra mejilla.

Además de sabio y modesto, fue un gran liberal. Esto, claro, nos enorgullece a quienes creemos que la doctrina liberal es el símbolo de la cultura democrática —la de la tolerancia, el pluralismo, los derechos humanos, la soberanía individual y la legalidad—, el buque insignia de la civilización.

La tolerancia no debe incluir el derecho a predicar la intolerancia»).