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Quotes About Tolerance

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
And Ibrahim asking forgiveness for his sire was only owing to a promise which he had made to him; but when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of Allah, he declared himself to be clear of him; most surely Ibrahim was very tender-hearted forbearing.
~ Unknown
Take to forgiveness and enjoin good and turn aside from the ignorant.
~ Unknown
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
~ Alexander Chase
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.
~ Richard Rossi
Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.
~ Unknown
I think people are beautiful no matter what. If you have a friend that nobody really likes, so what. You live your life with that friend you carry on in life and keep being friends with that friend nothing is going to stop you.
~ Unknown
Friendship justifies one thought, ACCEPTANCE is far better than CHANGE.
~ Unknown
If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Overlook an offense and bond a friendship; fasten on to a slight and-good-bye, friend!
~ Unknown
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
~ Buddha
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
~ Hasidic saying
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
~ Anais Nin
The good man is the friend of all living things
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be
~ Gandhi
Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
~ Unknown
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business
~ Unknown
We cannot be friends until we prove we truly are ready to understand and tolerate each other.
~ Terry Mark
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
~ Unknown
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
~ George Santayana
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
~ Maya Angelou
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing...not healing, not curing...that is a friend who cares.
~ Henri Nouwen