Tolerance Quotations | Page 6

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

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.

It's hard to believe, people don't even talk about it. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens.

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.

We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you.If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

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

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

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

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.