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Quotes about Tolerance


This Laodicean cant of tolerance.

Mrs. Humphry (Augusta Arnold) Ward

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Leo Buscaglia

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

Tom Hannah

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

Sidney J. Harris

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Clifford Geertz

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. •Gilda Radner Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.

Riki Rockett

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

John F. Kennedy

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

It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.

John C. Burton

It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.

John C. Burton

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

Eric Hoffer

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Samuel Davies

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Samuel Davies

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Theodor W. Adorno

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

George Santayana

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Dalai Lama

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.

Alan Wilson Voltaire

Intolerant only of intolerance.

Horace (Quintus Horatius I.S.S.G.

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

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Theodor W. Adorno

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Quentin Crisp

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