Quotes about Tolerance

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines. Little people are stuck in doctrines.

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

One can never satisfy a closed mind.

So he smiled to himself, for a dangerous phenomenon in the world is a man of narrow belief, who denies the right of his neighbour to be alone.

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy -- a little boy!

I judge people by their own principles — not by my own.

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

I have quit telling people they are wrong. And I find that it pays.

Don't criticise them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Half the nation savagely condemned these incompetent generals, but Lincoln, "with malice toward none, with charity for all," held his peace. One of his favorite quotations was "Judge not, that ye be not judged.