Jonas Salk Quotes

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.