Tolerance Quotes

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama

Best, Teacher, Enemy

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

Others, Rather, Commitment

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Islam, Justice, Human

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller

Education, Result, Highest

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire

Men, Christian, Until

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese

Live, Kindness, Compassion

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

Nature, Humanity, Law

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Yourself, Human, Giving

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes

Politics, Business, Democracy

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
Jessica Lange

Acceptance, Lessons

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
Clint Eastwood

Dating, Someone, Nothing

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
Pervez Musharraf

Peace, Islam, Hatred

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Christopher Hitchens

Learned, Often, Themselves

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King

Freedom, Human, Rights

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney

Love, Trust, Wedding

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes

Morning, Patience, Someone

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot

Vision, Lies, Wider

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

Love, Bad, Boring

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster

Love, Emotional, Cannot

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
King Hussein I

Life, Religion, Islam

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great, Support, Seen

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier

Humor, Friendly, Less

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
Pat Robertson

Try, Zero, Morons

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Heart, Rest

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry

Truth, Freedom, Language

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
Hedy Lamarr

Words, Become, Compromise

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson

Deep, Christian, Others

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.
Henry Rollins

Chance, Makes, Healthy

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham

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