Quotes about Tolerance
To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand
- Walt Whitman
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
- Walt Whitman
If it is a choice to be right or kind, always choose kind.
- Wayne Dyer
What can't be helped must be endured.
- Wendell Berry
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. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)
- Wendell Berry
I'm no expert, but I know one thing about anger—it's like alcohol. At some point, if you pour enough in there, it's coming back up. You may think you've built up a tolerance, but the truth is this—no man, not even Unc, can bury it so deep that it doesn't erupt at some point like Vesuvius and splatter your soul across the earth.
- Charles Martin
Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.
- H. Norman Wright
To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.
- Harold S. Kushner
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
- Harry S. Truman
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
- Harry S. Truman
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
- Leo Buscaglia