Quotes About Tolerance

Waiting is one of the great arts.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides!

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Toleration is the best religion.

Travel teaches toleration.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.

we really want to see change in the world and find a common, sacred meeting place, we can practice forgiveness rather than against-ness.  

Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.

How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid?

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

At the heart of compassion is the ability to put yourself in other people's shoes and tempering your reactions to them through empathy. If you do not understand what someone is going through it is hard to feel compassion for them. You do not want to be that person who is always telling others 'I wish you would just get over it already'.