Tolerance Quotes

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

Charles Kimball

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

When travelling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee

Helen Hayes

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

George Eliot

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

Alberto Gonzales

I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable

Dalai Lama

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

Rene Dubos

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Jakob Dylan

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement

John F. Kennedy

I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.

Kahlil Gibran 1883

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Sir Walter Besant

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

G. K. Chesterton
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