Quotes About Tolerance

When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him." Instead, he would agree in parts and suggest his differences only indirectly.

regard for reason and nature, its social consciousness, its progressivism, its tolerance, its cosmopolitanism, and its bland philanthropy." He

No sean tan severos conmigo —les respondió a los Born—. Todo el mundo debe, de vez en cuando, hacer un sacrificio ante el altar de la estupidez, a fin de agradar al dios de la humanidad. Y yo lo he hecho a fondo con mi artículo.

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults 

They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.

people, including types that I didn't like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.

Leadership," said Nimitz, "consists of picking good men and helping them do their best for you. The attributes of loyalty, discipline and devotion to duty on the part of subordinates must be matched by patience, tolerance and understanding on the part of superiors."24

We may exhort ourselves to read tolerantly, we may quote Coleridge on the willing suspension of disbelief until we think ourselves totally suspended in a relativistic universe, and still we will find many books which postulate readers we refuse to become, books that depend on 'beliefs' or 'attitudes'...which we cannot adopt even hypothetically as our own.

If it is a choice to be right or kind, always choose kind.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing.

Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose to be kind.

Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers you, it's your reaction to it. Instead of saying "They shouldn't do that," say, "I wonder why I bother myself with what they are doing.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you know nothing about

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

when you judge another person, you do not define them. You define yourself as someone who needs to judge others.

Eliminate as many judgments of others in your thoughts as possible. The simplest, most natural way to accomplish this is to see yourself in everyone.

When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist, there is no 'The way' to do anything.

Begin to see yourself as a person who notices instead of judges.

Imagine the possibilities for all of humanity if we simply eliminated prejudice

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.