Hermann Hesse Quotes

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

We must take our friends as they are.

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.