Quotes about Tolerance

“Travel teaches tolerance.”

“To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“Tolerance is only another name for indifference.”

“Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.”

“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”

“There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”

“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”

“Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.”

“Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.”

“You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award]”

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

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

“Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.”

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

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

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

“Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”