"We must not only learn to tolerate..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
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“It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.”
“He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.”
“Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.”
More on Diversity
“Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.”
“Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.”
“If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.”
More on Tolerance
“In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.”
“I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.”
“It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.”