Tolerance Quotes

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Fulton J. Sheen

As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind,Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find

Stephen Cosgrove

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Plato

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

Albert Camus

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

Jodi Picoult

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Princess of Wales Diana

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. Accepting his Independent Spirit Award

Sean Penn

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

Kahlil Gibran

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own

Mahatma Gandhi

For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.

Sir Thomas More

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Joshua Loth Liebman

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby, The Colby Ess

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.Tenzin Gyatso (1935- ), 14th Dailai Lama

Dalai Lama, Ocean of Wisdom; Gui

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for De

When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

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