Quotes About Tolerance

There is wisdom to loving.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?

am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.

If there were no fanaticism in the world, it would make much more progress than it does now. It is a mistake to think that fanaticism can make for the progress of mankind. On the contrary, it is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic. We

If one religion true, then all the others also must be true. Thus the Hindu faith is yours as much as mine.

if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realise the Divinity within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formularies help you to realise the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, and whatever temples, and whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward, towards the brutes.

Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid. The

if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: "Help and not Fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension." 1.2

Forbearance is the highest expression of freedom.

It is a well-known psychological fact that those who are ever ready to abuse others cannot bear the slightest touch of criticism from others.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.

The French may be straining the truth in their famous saying that "to understand all is to forgive all"," but it is certainly true that the more we know of any given person, the harder it becomes to hate him.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as 'reasonable' as we like to think they are.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

I smile sympathetically at a young man wearing a turban who looks to be as comfortable as the only husband at a Mary Kay party. Three years post–9/ 11 and they're still being treated like social pariahs. But, hey, African-Americans have endured three hundred plus years of it and all we did was take a boat ride.

Those with whom one disagrees should not be regarded as enemies but rather as people who's views deserve careful examination and may shed light on one's own.