T Quotes
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“TOLERANCE DOES NOT MEAN TOLERATING NONSENSE.”
“Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.”
“Tolerance doesn’t mean to accept, believe, understand, agree or ignore. Tolerance means yielding to beliefs that are not your own without judgement or condemnation.”
“Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.”
“Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.”
“Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.”
Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.”
Source: The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization -Christian, Islamic, and Judaic - from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300
“Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.”
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
“Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You’ll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.”
“Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.”
“Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever lead anyone to become intolerant. Our goal as Buddhists is to learn to accept all kinds of people and to help all kinds of people discover the wisdom of the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha”
“Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.”
Source: The Way To Happiness
“Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble .”
Source: The Way To Happiness
“Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.”
“Tolerance is a placid contempt.”
“Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.”
“Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.”
“Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path”
“Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.”
“Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.”
“Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.”
“Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.”
Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)
“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.”
“Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.”
“Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are. And despite its paradoxical flavor, there are many good arguments - moral, prudential, and epistemic - in favor of tolerance, and none that I know of against it.”
“Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .”
“Tolerance is another word for indifference.”
“Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.”
“Tolerance is certainly an improvement over hate, but it is not the same thing as freedom.”
“Tolerance is forced on people in London.”
“Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“Tolerance is just a fancy word for ignoring a fascist ideology. Acceptance is the only way.”
“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.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small
diʃerence in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group
of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?”
“Tolerance is not creating characters to suit a particular audience. It’s about inclusion of characters representing our societies.”
“Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.”
Source: Killosophy
“Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.”
“Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people”
“Tolerance is not weakness. It is the highest form of immune intelligence”
“Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.”
“Tolerance is often championed by people who nothing to stand for.”
“Tolerance is only another name for indifference.”
Source: A Writer's Notebook
“Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement”
Source: Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance
“Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.”
“Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.”