Voltaire Quotes

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Compassion is a two way street.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

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.

Love em or leave em; just don’t destroy em.

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

I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

I think 'understanding' and 'acceptance' are the most important words.

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.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

You have to give love to get love.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

We must take our friends as they are.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

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.

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.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.