Jane Seymour Quotes

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Some of my best friends in LA are devoutly religious people. I'm completely supportive and interested in people doing their own thing. That's a motto that I try to live by, and I hope that's how other people treat me. Live and let live.

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.