Quotes about tolerance

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Edmund Burke

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

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Travel teaches tolerance.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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.

— Edward M. Forster

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Sir James Goldsmith

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

— Sidney J. Harris

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

— Helen Keller

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

— Thomas Kempis

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

— Charles F. Kettering

To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.

— F. J. Kinsman

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

— Giacomo Leopardi

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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.

— Thomas More

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Herbert Samuel

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.

— Source Unknown

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

— William Allen White

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

— richard john neuhaus

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

— Thomas Mann

It is not difficult to convert a negative into a positive, given that a high level of tolerance remains persistent.

— Muhammad Tariq Majeed