Karl Jaspers Quotes

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

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

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

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

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'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

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.

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

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

We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.

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

Respecting differences is very difficult.

As long as we say: "Alright, it is truth for me, and I believe in it and I am ready to fight for it, but I accept that others have different beliefs - and so let me have a closer look at what they believe" - we can gain from our intercourse thanks to our difference, not despite our difference.

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

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 not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

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

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

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.'