This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. R. Forrester, fully William Roxburgh Forrester
Apocalyptic religion has its merits, but tolerance is not one of them.
Religion |
The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”
Skeptic |
We can flow along with the mainstream of a culture that does not serve us well – does not really make us comfortable, does not really make us safe; but only offers illusions of happiness, comfort, safety – or we can begin the oftentimes prickly work of searching our own hearts, of asking who and what we love, who and what we feel strongly enough about to change our lives for, to fight for, to live for.
Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham
The essence of tolerance lies in its openness to difference.
Openness |
What the schools can teach is what we value as a community… love, empathy, caring, cooperation, commitment to others, spiritual and ethical sensitivity, respect for difference, self-discipline, tolerance and honesty.
Commitment | Cooperation | Discipline | Empathy | Honesty | Love | Respect | Self | Teach | Respect | Value |
Arnold Lunn, fully Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn
Mutual tolerance of religious views is the product not of faith, but of doubt.
Thomas Lickona, fully Thomas Edward Lickona
Virtues transcend time and culture (although their cultural expression may vary); justice and kindness, for example, will always and everywhere be virtues, regardless of how many people exhibit them.
Culture | Example | Justice | Kindness | People | Time | Will |
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
Culture |