Tolerance Quotes
820 quotes by 618 authors
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For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.
— Lance Armstrong
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Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a…
— Dalai Lama
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
— Will Durant
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From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged…
— Ann Coulter
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The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
— Joel Salatin
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Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
— George Carlin
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If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn…
— Gene Roddenberry
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People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the…
— D. A. Carson
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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,…
— Eoin Colfer
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There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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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…
— Philip Pullman
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If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally…
— Noam Chomsky
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Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the…
— Michael Shermer
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I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will…
— Albert Einstein
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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…
— Kofi Annan
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What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal…
— Donald Woods Winnicott
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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…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not…
— Sarah Dessen
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