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.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Everyone can have a bad day.

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

As I allow myself my own weaknesses, I should tolerate the weaknesses of others.

I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That's how evolution happens.

I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

We're all human beings; people make mistakes.

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

There are faults we would fain pardon.

We should strive to understand the weakness of others.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

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.

Everybody's funny if you love them.

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.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I think there's good in everybody.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.