Thomas Browne Quotes

I celebrate everyone’s opinion even if I disagree with it.

I have no sympathy with anyone, whatever his station, who will not brook criticism.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

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.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Tolerance is an acquired taste. It is not innate. You build tolerance.

We must learn that we can disagree with each other without becoming deadly enemies.

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

If err we must, let us err on the side of tolerance.

Since opinions do not find in me a ready soil to thrust and spread their roots into, no premise shocks me, no belief hurts me, no matter how opposite to my own they may be.

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.

A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

Reasonable people can have differences.

People are stubborn about what they perceive to be the right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There's a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience - which it takes when someone thinks differently from you - everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.