Tolerance Quotes

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

Eric Hoffer

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Henry Ward Beecher

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Thomas Mann

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Herbert Samuel

People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Samuel Davies

Travel teaches tolerance.

Benjamin Disraeli

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

Thomas Kempis

You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.

Kahlil Gibran

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

Paulo Coelho

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Giacomo Leopardi

To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.

F. J. Kinsman

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Voltaire

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Sir James Goldsmith

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, (Bu

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller