Quotes About Tolerance

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

What can't be helped must be endured.

What can't be helped must be endured, Mat Feltner said. And he was a man who knew.

It might prove out to be," Athey said, "that if we can't live together we can't live at all. Did you ever think about that?

he patiently tolerated as much of him as he thought tolerable. The rest he ignored.

It is a serious fault in a man to dislike a boy

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

Until you can give up being a judge of yourself and others, you cannot begin a search into compassion.

I should not ever live with anyone, because I just don't have the patience for it. I'm very cranky around other people.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good

I think it will end here. When I can bear it no longer, I think it will end here.

We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?

Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all living things.

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato

Instead of sacking cities and wrecking temples he showed a courteous respect for the deities of the conquered, and contributed to maintain their shrines; even the Babylonians, who had resisted him so long, warmed towards him when they found him preserving their sanctuaries and honoring

There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.