Tolerant Quotes

253 Tolerant quotes by 226 unique authors

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. — Oscar Wilde
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared… — Karl Popper
Books are the most tolerant of friends. — Richard Paul Evans
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you… — Walt Whitman
...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-... — Junot Diaz
If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose… — Lori Lansens
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when… — Eric Hoffer
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a… — Barack Obama
Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after… — Dean Koontz
One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'-… — E. M. Forster
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living… — Richard Wright
The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us… — Loren Eiseley
America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding… — Orson Scott Card
I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the… — Neil Gaiman
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right… — H. L. Mencken
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two… — Beryl Markham
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young. — Lemmy Kilmister
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may… — Jorge Luis Borges
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance. — Bill Maher
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad… — Nick Hornby
I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her… — Franny Billingsley
You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more… — Ted Hughes
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. — Marcus Aurelius

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