Quotes About Tolerance

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

Nate would tolerate most things for about an hour if he knew there was the promise of a snack and the chance to be left alone in the near future.

Let her have her moose.

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

Treat all people-even the most unsightly beetles-as though they were angels sent from heaven.

they maybe didn't deserve respect, exactly, but I knew enough to give them some.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." Thomas Paine

Just because someone doesn't look like you doesn't automatically make them an enemy.

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

And if we never agree, can't we agree to disagree? If God can tolerate my mistakes, can't I tolerate the mistakes of others? If God can overlook my errors, can't I overlook the errors of others? If God allows me with my foibles and failures to call him Father, shouldn't I extend the same grace to others? One thing's for sure. When we get to heaven, we'll be surprised at some of the folks we see. And some of them will be surprised when they see us.

When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to take in the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.

There was such a thing as woman's work and it consisted chiefly, Hillary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.

As I ate she began the first of what we later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

As I ate she began the first of what was later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.