Jakob Dylan Quotes

Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.

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

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

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

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.

I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one's own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

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 am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

I have learnt to respect others opinion more.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

I don't want people to judge books by their cover, I want people to be open minded to the rest of the world.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

[The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

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

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

There are still places in America that we need to nurture, to allow them to understand that there are other ways of living, and it's not wrong, just because it's not your way of living.