Quotes About Tolerance

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

lot of getting along with other people is more about making a decision that you want to get along and then doing whatever is necessary to keep the peace.

The so-called ancien régime prided itself on its continuity and stability. Entry by entrepreneurs and talented individuals into new occupations would create instability and was not tolerated. If

What had been intriguing on Monday and Tuesday was approaching annoying by Wednesday and exasperating by Thursday.

To be firm without a complementary flexibility is to be a corpse. Conservative self-confidence without a liberal broad-mindedness becomes chauvinism, pedantry.

I understand some of the committee people, despite their official positions, are not very friendly toward gays and lesbians.

We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it." I

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't." "Great

Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.' 'What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.' 'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.

Knowing your pain tolerance is important. Pills and needles mask it. Not good. I could be slipping and I'd never know it.

People are people," said Blum. "No matter where they are.

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.

You can't live your life trying to make people understand something they don't want to understand.

There're many things to love in this country. The skinheads are not one of them.

People who read are a lot more tolerant than people who don't.

One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don't like everyone, everyone doesn't like us, and that's okay.

Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They are your fellow citizens. And together, we are not lesser than any greatest generation..