Quotes About Tolerance

There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice something for a quiet life.

but you have been in my hair for the last fourteen days, and I shall be very glad to get you out.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

Shelby's mantra, "Their way of doing things is better than your way of not doing things.

We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success-oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God. God wants us to walk in obedience—not

She shrugged another plump shoulder. "I never listened to Porter when he got going." Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.

I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul." "Uh...sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks...

Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.

Give people a break. It's not easy doing a life.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

As Herman Melville wrote: "see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.

That's a bad bruise." "I scarcely feel it." Indeed, she probably could have been smacked over the head with a log just then and would scarcely have noticed.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

He suddenly suspected what everyone comes to understand sooner or later, that communication was impossible and not even desirable, that compassion was worth no more than hate, that a tolerant indifference, an attention divided between respect and sensuality, was all that could be asked or be given.

Skepticism was a drug for him. Life's vicissitudes had taught him never to be caught without it. A most useful drug, it magically invigorated his heart, transforming opprobrium into piety and ignominy into tolerance.

sintió una de esas tristezas que toleramos porque aparecen en momentos felices

La discusión de mis funciones corporales por parte de una completa extraña no me incomodó. Había en Maya Fritts una naturalidad que yo nunca había visto, y que desde luego era muy distinta del puritanismo de los bogotanos, capaces de pasarse la vida entera fingiendo que nunca han cagado.

I can always forgive where I understand.

And here I thought you were open-minded." "I'm not," she said

What I really wish is that religious leaders could truly understand what the Bible is and stop trying to use it for hatred. I wish they could just stop hiding behind the Bible and live up to the fact that what they really stand for when they are bashing gays is small-minded bigotry.

People have a right to be the way they are.

To cultivate empathy means to see the world through the eyes of another without judgement, without trying to "fix" it, without needing it to be different. It is acceptance independent of agreement, understanding without any implied coercion for oneself or the other to change. There is also no sense of wanting to "educate" the other person about how their perspective is wrong and ours is right.