Quotes About Tolerance

Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter their color; equal in importance no matter their texture.

I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

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.

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

There was no need to discuss racial prejudice. Hadn't we all, black and white, just snatched the remaining Jews from the hell of concentration camps? Race prejudice was dead. A mistake made by a young country. Something to be forgiven as an unpleasant act committed by an intoxicated friend.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

I began this lifelong lesson. If human beings eat a thing, and if I am not so violently repelled by my own upbringing that I cannot speak, and if it is visually clean within reason, and if I am not allergic to the offering, I will sit at the table and with all the gusto I can manufacture I will join in the feast. P.S. I call this a lifelong lesson for I have not fully learned it and I am often put to the test...

They don't really hate us. They don't know us. How can they hate us? They mostly scared.

Dijo que siempre debía ser intolerante con la ignorancia, pero comprensiva con la incultura, y que ciertas personas, que no podían ir a la escuela, eran más instruidas e incluso más inteligentes que los profesores de universidad.

If we tolerate vulgarity, our future will sway and fall under a burden of ignorance.

Ma quali sono quella madre e quella figlia che si capiscono, o quanto meno guardano con indulgenza la mancanza di comprensione reciproca?

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

Yeah. He gets me. Well, except for the part where I'm totally fine with premarital sex and am also convinced that God, if he or she exists, is, too. "Well

wonder how a country so divided can stand?" "We will only stand if we learn to accept and even embrace each other's differences rather than allow them to divide us. It is a childish fantasy to expect everyone to agree all the time, but how much better to live in a country where one is free to think differently from one's neighbors, and even one's government, without risking life and limb.

Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are.

attraction to and tolerance for the bizarre, other-centeredness that results in abandonment of self

Today, I will practice tolerance, acceptance, and love of others as they are, and myself as I am. I will strive for that balance between expecting too much and expecting too little from others and myself.

The more uncivilised the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilised man is always skeptical and tolerant. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp—and hate.

There is no one true way. This is how we live in peace with each other. This is how we live in peace with those outside our borders who do not seek to impose their ways on us. And this is the only way we can continue to live in peace.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

We know that Valdemar is not the land—and it is not just the people. Valdemar is a spirit, a community of spirit that binds a hundred disparate peoples with a hundred different religions and ways of life into a company and a greater whole. It is not a unity, for that would be denying our diversity, and in our diversity and our tolerance is our strength.

The malignancy of divisiveness, given the chance to creep deeper, would rot us. You need to truly consider that your neighbor's beliefs are as valid as yours and not disparage or impair those beliefs.