Tolerance Quotes - Page 13

• The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?

  Donald J. Carty

  Aunt, Iowa, People

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• Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

  Luce Irigaray

  Respect, Desire, Doe

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Exercise, Excuse You, Emergencies

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.69, Northwestern University Press

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• Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Long, Boredom, Focus

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• In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young women and men - together, to nurture freedom and dialogue, to create new bridges of respect and understanding, for greater tolerance and cooperation.

  Irina Bokova

  Men, Bridges, People

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• Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

  Timothy Keller

  People, Belief, Absence

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• There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

  George Eliot

  Men, Race, Imagination

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

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• I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Blow, Two Sides

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4591, Delphi Classics

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

  George Eliot

  Lasts, Intolerance, Refuge

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.471, Cambridge University Press

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• Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

  Paulo Coelho

  Compassion, People, Fearless

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 06, 2014

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• Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Different, Worship

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• If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

  George Marsden

  Culture, Virtue, Ifs

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Kindness, People, Criticism

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.23, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Years, People, Good Man

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Where There's a Will”, p.242, The Floating Press

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• We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Sympathy, Wisdom

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• Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Mean, Dark

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• Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Believe, Acceptance, Thinking

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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• There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Devil, World, Praise

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• Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

  Robert Thurman

  Cognitive Dissonance, Dissonance, Cognitive

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.

  Frank Knox

  Education, Art, Believe

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

  Frank Knox

  Forgiveness, Believe, Heart

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• The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Self, Scotch

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• Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Compassion, Race, Law

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• Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Views, Labels

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• Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

  Dennis Miller

  Xenophobia, Scrabble, Benefits

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.30, Main Street Books

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