In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die. Dorothy L. Sayers
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
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Allan Bloom
It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused. Intolerance and cruelty have occurred in the name of truth. To that extent people are afraid when someone says, "This is the truth",...
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Pope Benedict XVI
Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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Emil M. Cioran
The highest result of education is tolerance
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Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
More Quotes By Dorothy L. Sayers
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact,...
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in...
