“Perbedaan pun terbukti berguna, selama ada toleransi.”
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Probable attribution
This saying is widely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but the attribution is not supported by a reliable primary source.
Likely origin: Indonesian translation of Gandhi's autobiography line 'Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and truth'
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Disagreement only becomes an asset when the people arguing still trust each other's intentions. Strip away tolerance and honesty and the same clash hardens into a feud; keep them, and each objection sharpens the other side's thinking instead of wounding it.
When to use it
- Two engineers argue over a design, and because they respect each other, the debate surfaces a flaw neither would have caught alone.
- A couple disagrees about money but stays kind, so the conversation ends with a budget both can actually live with.
- A book-club member challenges the popular reading of a novel, and the honest pushback deepens everyone's take on it.