Tolerance Quotes - Page 11

• The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, People

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• And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . .

  Simone Elkeles

  Zero, Want, Trouble

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• I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Levels, Ifs

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Attitude, Should

  "It will take more than tolerance to protect human rights" by Daniel Barenboim, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

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• If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.

  Arthur Japin

  Pain, Forever, Nagging

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• There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Compassion, Hatred, Pay

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.314, The Overlook Press

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• God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Differences, World, May

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• [First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

  Nora Roberts

  Skills, Lines, Firsts

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• The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Possibility, Uncertainty, Willingness

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Penguin

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• Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Running, Hate, Brain

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Complete Science Fiction Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Illustrated): A Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, The Gods of Mars, Beyond Thirty, The Warlord of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, Pirates of Venus, The Monster Men and many more”, p.620, e-artnow

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• If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  People, Grudge, Ifs

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Men, Vanity

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Vines, Vineyards

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  Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

  Rumi

  Love, Inspiring, Eye

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• The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

  Steven Erikson

  Heart

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.955, Random House

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• I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.

  Linda Howard

  Real, Limits, Fleas

  Linda Howard (2012). “Shades Of Twilight”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

  John Irving

  Judging, Superiors

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Country, America, Errors

  "A Plea For Intolerance". Essay by Fulton J. Sheen, 1931.

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• Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

  Tony Blair

  Britain, Conform

  "Radical Muslims must integrate, says Blair" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2006.

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• Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, War, Lying

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• Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Evil, Use

  Charles Colson (2012). “The Good Life”, p.191, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

  T. S. Monk

  Teamwork, Philosophy, America

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• In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Egalitarianism, Differences

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.181, Counterpoint

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• When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Lonely, Pain

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Frustration, Our Generation, Imperfection

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