David Romtvedt Quotes

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

David Romtvedt

• Judgment
• Tolerance
• Consensus
• Withholding

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• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Different
  • Judgment

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Bad
  • Judgment
  • Behavior

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Practice

• We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Wish
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• 'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Strong
  • Understanding
  • Diversity

• Along with this element of universal tolerance, I should couple our Republican system of Government, which gives to every man a share and a responsibility in the direction of public affairs. And third, I should place our system of universal free education.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Free
  • Education
  • Responsibility

• The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • World
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Tolerance

• We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

  

  Charlie Dent
  • Remember
  • Future
  • Freedom

• The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Good
  • American
  • Tolerance

• My marriage is far from perfect. We're not hand-holdy and soft. We are snippy and bickery. We sleep in separate beds because we have no tolerance of each other's night-time idiosyncrasies.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Time
  • Night
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Frank Knox
  • True
  • Today
  • Quality

• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Truth
  • Evil
  • Attitude

• Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Tolerance
  • Assumption
  • Superiority

• There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Consensus
  • Negotiations
  • Powerless

• You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Question
  • Judgment
  • Views

• When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Tolerance

• Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thinking
  • Imagination
  • Judgment

• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth
  • Fashion
  • Judgment

• New York has the best tap water.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Water

• Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Food
  • City

• There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

  

  David Romtvedt
  • Judgment
  • Tolerance
  • Consensus