Quotes About Tolerance

Don't needle the seamstress.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

All it takes is an apostrophe and a bit of an attitude adjustment to go from "impatient" to "I'm patient."

We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Everyone has that one thing that's totally illogical, which if you really want to love that person, you've just got to accept.

Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays... Why be exclusive when you can be inclusive?

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.

For reconstructionists, tolerance is not a neutral concept that acknowledges equal validity of all religious belief before the law; instead, they speak of a "Christian tolerance" that permits equal treatment but not equal acceptance of all doctrine. Reconstructionists would not seek to regulate personal beliefs, but would regulate public actions and behavior.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Try for perfect communication, but give yourself a break if you're not there yet.

8I have charity for the Jew (I say Jew, because I mean them from whence I came). 9

One minute of patience, ten years of peace

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

I don't want to teach Pakistani's children to think like Americans...I just want them to have a balanced, non-extremist education

I wish all the Americans who think 'Muslim' is just another way of saying 'terrorist' could have been there that day. The true core tenants of Islam are justice, tolerance, and charity.

We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was 'divide and conquer.' But I say 'unite and conquer.

we're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance, challenge dogma, and reinforce our common humanity. The second does the opposite.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.