Quotes about Tolerance

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

I am very far away from being angry. I really don't get angry most of the time. I am a patient person.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offence' (Prov. 19:11).

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.

What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too." Indian

Without the undergirding of love, the possessor of any conviction becomes obnoxious, and the dogma believed becomes repulsive to the one who disagrees with it.