23 quotes about Tolerance

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Colby, Frank Moore

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Travel teaches tolerance.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

Forster, Edward M.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goldsmith, Sir James

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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.

Keller, Helen

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Keller, Helen

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.

Kinsman, F. J.

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

Leopardi, Giacomo

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

More, Thomas

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

Penn, Sean

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Seneca

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

Unknown, Source

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

White, William Allen