Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

When we get them, we immediately go out there and abate it. We have no tolerance for that.

Bill McKibben

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Bill Maher

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Brandon Lee

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

We have zero tolerance for racism, sexism, anti-Semitism in the L.A.P.D. That is a non- negotiable issue.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

Bruce Lee

To tolerate is to insult.

Barack Obama

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

Andrea Corr

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Dalai Lama

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

Dalai Lama

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

Cynthia McKinney

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.

Amy Chua

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

Amy Chua

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

Alexis de Tocqueville

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Aristotle

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

We used to be pampered, now we are searched. The frustration tolerance has been decreased.

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.

Nelson Mandela

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Giacomo Leopardi

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

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

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).

Krista Tippett

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

Margaret Chase Smith

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

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.

Henry Louis Gates

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

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.