Good morning. Happy Wednesday! Welcome to Wisdom Wednesday. I hope that everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. I, myself, had to work Saturday and Sunday but I was able to spend the holiday with friends.
This week’s virtue focuses on tolerance. Tolerance is a reasonable and objective approach concerning those whose views and customs vary from one’s own. It is awareness to allow, permit, appreciate, or acknowledge something whether it be religion, politics, culture, race, or lifestyle; free of bigotry.
It is also the dedication to value human dignity. Each person is both a source and recipient of tolerance. It does not mean that you have to accept the views but, in fact, realize that we are all one and that each person and/group is unique and accepted as part of this race—the human race.
How do you practice tolerance?
10 Wisdom Wednesday Quotes: Tolerance
- “Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.” ― Gautama Buddha
- “Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.” ― Kofi Annan
- “Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.” ― Albert Einstein
- “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” ― John F. Kennedy
- “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged” ― Rumi
- “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.” ― Malcolm X
- “Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.” ― Voltaire
- “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
- “Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.” ― Bill Maher
