Quotes About Tolerance

today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything.

And believing in choice meant you supported it whether someone's choice conformed to your personal beliefs or not.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

for the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched.

please tell me your definition of ahimsa." "The avoidance of harm to any living creature in thought or deed." "Beautiful

The more you know about another person's story, the less possible it is to see that person as your enemy.

But it's not very likely, is it, that any movement towards greater tolerance would persist in wartime? After all, in war, you've got this enormous emphasis on love between men - comradeship - and everybody approves. But at the same time there's always this little niggle of anxiety. Is it right kind of love? Well, one of the ways you make sure it's the right kind is to make it crystal clear what the penalties for the other kind are.

Must be quite nice, really. A foot on each side of the fence. Long as you don't mind what it's doing to your balls.

It should not be a crime to discuss any idea, however outrageous

One must always forgive another's passion.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

I suppose it was easier, in that harsh world, to make demons out of your neighbors, with their imperfections, tempers, rheumy eyes, missing teeth, irritating habits and smells, than to find angelic beauty in them.

Live and let live is Frances's motto. "Life is short," she likes to say. "You only get one, and if you waste it worrying about what other people think

He seems to be making you that way too - enough to tolerate people like him. And once you start tolerating them, you're going to end up being like them yourself.

We need a national Forgive the Ignorant Day

Try to bear lightly what needs must be.

cuando algo nos desagrada, es mucho más fácil criticar y censurar que tratar de comprender el punto de vista del prójimo. Con frecuencia es más fácil encontrar defectos

No critique, no condene ni se queje.

it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

As Dr Johnson said, "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

Seeing things through another person's eyes may ease tensions when personal problems become overwhelming.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. 'To know all is to forgive all.

PRINCIPLE 8 Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.

realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.