Tolerance Quotes

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint. — D. J. MacHale
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… — Beryl Markham
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if… — Theodore Roosevelt
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. — Allan Bloom
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make… — Ann Druyan
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to… — Thomas Huxley
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule — Frank Herbert
The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of… — Dalai Lama
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we… — Michel de Montaigne
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness. — Khalil Gibran
Men are respectable only as they respect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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;… — Benjamin Franklin
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. — Thomas Mann
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them. — Marcus Aurelius
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself. — H.G. Wells
Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a… — Jim Butcher
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU… — Thomas S. Monson

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