Tolerance Quotes

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

Religious tolerance. No! Zero tolerance for any type of religion.

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

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

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Don't back off on traditional values. It's important to show respect and tolerance for others, but they must show the same respect for your values. Tolerance is a two-way street.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

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.

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

Show love, tolerance and respect to everyone.

We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

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

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.