Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Tolerance

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
Joshua L. Liebman (1907–48) American Jewish Rabbi, Author

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he’d be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie (b.1947) Indian-born British Novelist

Minds are like parachutes—they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar (1864–1930) Scottish Businessperson

Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art.
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American Poet

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) Ghanaian Statesman, International Diplomat

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) Italian Poet, Essayist, Philosopher

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas a Kempis (1379–1471) German Religious Priest, Writer

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) Romanian-born American Writer, Professor, Political Activist

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Support the aged without reference to religion; respect the learned without reference to age.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French Novelist

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
Raisa Gorbacheva (1932–99) Russian Activist

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South African Political leader

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage,—the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

The virtuous of all nations participate in eternal bliss.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American Novelist

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
John Stuart Mill (1806–73) English Philosopher, Economist

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance—the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
Barbara Jordan (1936–96) American Lawyer, Educator, Politician

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader, Civil Rights Leader, Philosopher, Author

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.
Dominique Pire (1910–69) Belgian Clergyman, Educator

One need only grow old to become gentler in one’s judgments. I see no fault committed which I could not have committed myself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–68) American Politician, Civil Rights Activist

The Lord who proclaimed the Law of Sinai is the God of all nations.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster (1879–1970) English Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

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