Bruce William Powe Quotes

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

We, as a society, need to be open-minded.

And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.

I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one's own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.