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Quotes About Tolerance

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.
~ Bob Woodward, Obama's Wars
When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war?
~ Debasish Mridha
This world needs much more kissing and far less fighting.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
War is not nice.
~ Barbara Bush
What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. ("Is heaven a place in the sky?")
~ Erik Pevernagie
Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.
~ Charles S. Weinblatt
Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity
~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.
~ Erndell Scott, Paper Boats
Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~ Saint Augustine
Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
~ Al-Shafi'i
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
~ Rumi
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle, Metaphysics
The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
~ William Penn
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
~ Nelson Mandela
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.
~ Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
~ Steven Erikson
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
~ Roy Hattersley
Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.
~ Robert Thurman
Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.
~ Muhammad