Tolerance

(168 votes)   Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(136 votes)   Travel teaches tolerance.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(132 votes)   I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(115 votes)   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.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(97 votes)   Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(86 votes)   Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

William Allen White
1868-1944, American Editor, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(86 votes)   Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(83 votes)   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
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(79 votes)   There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(79 votes)   You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award]

Sean Penn
1960-, American Actor, Director, Screenwriter

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(77 votes)   For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.

Thomas More
1478-1535, British Chancellor, Canonized in 1915

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(72 votes)   Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(70 votes)   To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.

F. J. Kinsman

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(39 votes)   When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

Source Unknown

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website