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30 Quotes of Tolerance
Tolerance: the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with
As you continue on your path towards living a happy life full of gratitude and love, use these quotes in your daily practice.
1. “It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Herman Hesse
2. “It’s an universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
3. “Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”
― Steven Moffat
4. “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
― Jalal ad-Din Rumi
5. “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
― Voltaire
6. “Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
― Joseph Fort Newton
7. “The highest result of education is tolerance”
― Helen Keller
8. “Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
― Albert Einstein
9. “Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
― Brandon Sanderson
10. “Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.”
― Malcolm X
11. “Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, “At the very least, you will be polite to them.”
― Patricia Briggs
12. “Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”
― Kofi Annan
13. “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
― Thomas Mann
14. “Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali
15. “Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It’s a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”
― Sarah Dessen
16. “Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Michelle Obama
17. “In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.”
― Paulo Coelho
18. “I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
― Stephen Fry
19. “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
20. “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
― John F. Kennedy
21. “Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.”
― Bill Maher
22. “Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.”
― Ray A. Davis
23. “The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is ‘Leave me alone; don’t harass me; I’m intolerant towards your over-proximity.”
― Slavoj Žižek
24. “If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
― Thomas Paine
25. “All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius
26. “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
― Aristotle
27. “Since we are living in an open society with a space for tolerance and indulgence, we must monitor assiduously the permanent changes of habits and customs and the “normality barometer” should be determined and adjusted, time after time. (“On a doggy day”)”
― Erik Pevernagie
28. “All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.”
― Roger Ebert
29. “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.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
30. “Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.”
― Timothy Keller
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