Tolerance Quotes

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.

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

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

Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

Cohesion means respectful diversity, which is about much more than the weak-kneed tolerance.

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.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).

India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

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

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.

The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

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

In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.