Tolerance Quotes

• One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• To think that one's actions could please the masses is indeed a notion bound in irony; someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything. So do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Remember
  • Tolerance

• Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

  

  Krista Tippett
  • Tolerance

• 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
  • Focus
  • Style

• I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.

  

  Cindy Gallop
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Tolerance

• Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Way
  • Honesty
  • Sober

• Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Tolerance

• Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• 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've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.

  

  Beji Caid Essebsi
  • Power
  • Political
  • Democracy

• (He remarked) that anyone who truly wished to develop tolerance toward other human beings should start by casting aside any and all religious affiliation. When challenged by one of the other guests, he had asked innocently whether anyone could name a single person put to death or driven from his home by an atheist over theological matters.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Death
  • Single

• We must aim for a zero-tolerance approach to hospital-acquired infections; we have to be clear about who's in charge at ward level, so there's proper accountability, and we need to reduce the reliance on agency nursing staff.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Tolerance
  • Accountability

• Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Law
  • Driving
  • Drinking

• I was born in the United States, I'm proud to be an American, I'm an American first. But obviously, I'm a Chinese-American. And growing up, my family, my parents, and I think rightly so didn't put us in Chinatown, didn't put us with our other ethnic group, but put us in mainstream America. They're thinking was that will help us assimilate into the mainstream and be a part of it. And it did. It certainly gave me tolerance of other people, of other races, of other ethnicities and I think that's helped make me a better person.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Friends

• A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Tolerance

• I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally, the new immunology was born.

  

  Frank Macfarlane Burnet
  • Tolerance

• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • High
  • Hope

• I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Acceptance

• I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Why
  • High
  • Dance

• I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • Tolerance

• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Ignorance

• Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • Different
  • Firsts
  • Being

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