Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old tolerance quotes, tolerance sayings, and tolerance proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.Dalai Lama
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.John F. Kennedy
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Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.Joshua Liebman
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Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.Tom Hannah
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Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life.Wilbert E. Scheer
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Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.Robert Green Ingersoll
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Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.Ray Davis
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What is tolerance?--it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly--that is the first law of nature.Voltaire
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Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.Thomas Mann
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Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.Fausto Cercignani
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Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.Karl Popper
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Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.Tenzin Gyatso
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.George Eliot
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.Edmund Burke
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.Sir Walter Besant
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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
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Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.John Cogley Commonweal
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.W. Somerset Maugham
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The highest result of education is tolerance.Helen Keller
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Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own.Mahatma Gandhi
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We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Tolerance can lead to learning something.Jakob Dylan
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Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.Helen Keller
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.James Goldsmith
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Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.Arthur Keith
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Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.Sidney Hook
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Tolerance is the ability to forgive those who tend to speak before thinking.Catherine Pulsifer