Tolerance Quotes

[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breat...

When my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Moho...

These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand ov...

If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and...

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afte...

...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might ...

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated pe...

Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To de...

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful tr...

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who ...

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as trut...

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance—such abuses of the freedom of speech—a free societ...

One of the most wonderful things about Pride and Prejudice is the variety of voices it embodies. The...

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the an...

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that al...

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be pr...

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or...

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you wi...

I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, gra...

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate...

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some poin...

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

Another example was relentlessly expressed during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, and...

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in not...

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one...

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tole...

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from sho...

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what ...

Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands...

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many...

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begi...

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between me...

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of peopl...

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different me...

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he...

The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wron...

The highest result of education is tolerance

Im Verlaufe nicht nur der ökonomischen, sondern auch der politischen Globalisierung kann das kardina...

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance tow...

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for ...

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every dece...

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to b...

That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but ther...

What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German c...

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, i...

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us t...

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone...

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it ge...

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims...

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police st...

I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on th...

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of ...

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to b...

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to b...

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. T...

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the ...

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or ...

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance...

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is ...