Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-12-28 Dec 28, 2017What 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.~ VoltaireForgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer.~ Howard MartinOnce one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Dec 27, 2017To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.~ Bertrand RussellTolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper.~ Everett Dean MartinNot until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal.~ Henry Giles Dec 26, 2017Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.~ BuddhaPerfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.~ Josiah Gilbert HollandLove is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Dec 25, 2017No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.~ AesopThose who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.~ Elizabeth HarrisonHonesty demands that we boldly pursue ideas tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and confirmed by revelation. We will only find truth when we place our confidence in it and not in ourselves. We will only learn when we love truth enough to measure all ideas with a measuring rod outside of those things being measured and are willing to discard those ideas we find to be "intolerable," inferior, and useless.~ Everett Piper Dec 22, 2017Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.~ Girolamo SavonarolaBut I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.~ Jesus of NazarethTo love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.~ John Locke Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print