Quotes About Tolerance

He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

He was a naturally pacific, sociable man; he liked to think well of his fellow men, even an occupying German officer.

Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

All of which is only to explain how I came by a piece of equipment that most writers have to acquire one way or another: an unusual tolerance, even a preference, for instability. Not that they don't suffer from being unsure of next year's plans or this month's rent. They do. But, unlike many people, they can live with it.

We learn from difference, not from sameness.

a crucial purpose of birth families is to make sure we know, value, and even love people we don't agree with.

Learning to accept and even love difference, as she pointed out, is important for the future of the human race. There is great comfort in realizing that differences within a family have an important purpose.

This is all the more important today when we have world leaders who don't respect differences. That lack of respect is a dictatorship.

This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet

Iznad naroda je ljudskost.

Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative - Goethe

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

The wise understand without judging. The ignorant judge without understanding.

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?

So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Each of us is an individual. Each of us is different. There must be respect for those differences… We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of forbearance, with tolerance one for another regardless of the doctrines and philosophies which we may espouse. Concerning these you and I may disagree. But we can do so with respect and civility.

Our membership in this Church . . . should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.