Quotes About Tolerance

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

to accept people as they are. If I wait for others to be what I want them to be, I will never accept them. By looking at what my brother is not, instead of at what he is, I will never be able to sympathize with him, struggle with him, hurt with him, or rejoice with him.

George Washington Carver said we should be kind to others: "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.

Seja bom com os outros. A distância que você caminha na vida vai depender da sua ternura com os jovens, da sua compaixão com os idosos, sua compreensão com aqueles que lutam, da sua tolerância com os fracos e os fortes. Porque algum dia na vida você poderá ser um deles." - George Washington Carver

Forbearance does not ask us to abandon our convictions. It does ask us to hold them in a profoundly distinct way, the way of Christian virtue, animated by a commitment to preserving the unity of the Body of Christ.

We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes.

It is a good thing to have two ways of looking at a subject, and to admit that there are two ways of looking at it.

If I could make one rule that everybody would have to follow… Stay Unique, Remain Humble and Kind, and Grow Empathy for others.

No matter what political party you are with we all should not take politics with us everywhere we go making everything in life politically charged, We all need to take the politics everywhere idea and throw it so far down in the ocean that not even Jacques Cousteau will be able to find it

We must endure the ignorant to protect the liberty of the majority.

pluralism today—at least in America—exists without a dominant culture,

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant.

they didn't think there was anything very odd in anyone being a little odd.

fundamentalism is a form of mental illness that seeks to repress anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence. The more mature the personality structure, the greater the capacity of the person, and the culture, to tolerate the anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence that are a necessary and unavoidable dimension of our lives.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

Because when you get down to it, thinking of somebody as 100% human seriously gets in the way of hating them.

People will put up with being terrified but no one will tolerate being bored.