I Thoughts On Tolerance

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THOUGHTS “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.” —Karl Popper

“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.” —Anaïs Nin

“In order to practice tolerance on behalf of the pursuit of truth, you fi rst have to value and believe in not merely the pursuit of truth but Truth itself.” —Willmoore Kendall

“The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas.” —Lao Tzu

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.” —George Washington Carver

“Difference is an accident of birth and should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict.” —John Hume

“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” —Dalai Lama XIV “Think for yourself, and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.” —Voltaire

Tolerance

Nelson Mandela

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.” —Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” —Ralph W. Sockman “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” —Aristotle

“More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.” —Ludwig von Mises

“Respect everyone who crosses your path, even if you feel they don’t deserve it.” —Alaric Hutchinson

SOURCES: THE “OPEN SOCIETY” AND ITS FALLACIES, BY WILLMOORE KENDALL; THE TREATISE ON TOLERANCE, BY VOLTAIRE; THE TAO TE CHING, BY LAO TZU; THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES, BY KARL POPPER; LIVING PEACE, BY ALARIC HUTCHINSON; LIBERALISM: THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, BY LUDWIG VON MISES; LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, BY NELSON MANDELA; JANE EYRE, BY CHARLOTTE BRONTË. “People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love—for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” —Nelson Mandela

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most diffi cult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education. They grow there, fi rm as weeds among stones.” —Charlott e Brontë

“Finally, all of you, be likeminded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.” —1 Peter 3:8

FINAL THOUGHT

“Let us reconcile ourselves to compromises not wholly ideal from our viewpoint.”

—B.C. Forbes