Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

There's a frustration tolerance with these things that has to be managed properly.

Henry Louis Gates

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

George Eliot

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Francois Rabelais

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

Frank Knox

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Frank Herbert

To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

Muriel Rukeyser

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.

Jean Guitton

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

Giacomo Leopardi

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Eoin Colfer

Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

Herbert Marcuse

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

Greg Gutfeld

You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But if they said, "No homeless apply," they would be transient bigots. For as bureaucrats use language to punish the lawful, they use tolerance to coddle the troubled.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Pete Cashmore

We are all more connected than ever. That connectivity builds tolerance.

Joel Salatin

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Linda Chavez

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

Karl Popper

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

Philip Pullman

I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

Josh Billings

The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

Kage Baker

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

Jodi Picoult

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

Lizz Winstead

Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.

Nelson Mandela

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Margaret Chase Smith

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Lafcadio Hearn

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

Patti Page

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

Ken Wilber

The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).