#toleration

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ↗

— Helen Keller

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To sympathize with the suffering of others forges understanding, but that doesn't mean they'll put up with you. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #sympathy #toleration #funny

What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#toleration #business

Ich wünsche mir, dass sich unsere Gesellschaft tolerant, wertbewusst und vor allen Dingen in Liebe zur Freiheit entwickelt und nicht vergisst, dass die Freiheit der Erwachsenen Verantwortung heißt. ↗

— Joachim Gauck

#responsibility #society #tolerance #toleration #values

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Toleration is the best religion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#religion #toleration

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#confidence #cooperation #keep #least #must

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#none #toleration