Quotes About Tolerance

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

Why are people so unkind?

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

We are for religion against the religions.

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

Imagine others complexly.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.