Tolerance proverbs

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◆ Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

- Steven Moffat99

◆ Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.

- Gautama Buddha99

◆ Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

- Rumi99

◆ Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn99

◆ It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ The highest result of education is tolerance

- Helen Keller99

◆ Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

- Voltaire99

◆ I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

- Sarah Dessen99

◆ In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

- Dalai Lama XIV99

◆ Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

- Kofi Annan99

◆ All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

- Bobby Knight98

◆ Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.

- John Dewey98

◆ I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

- Charles F Kettering98