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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours. (Quote by - Philip Gilbert Hamerton)

What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. (Quote by - Voltaire)

True love means infinite tolerance for each others differences. (Quote by - M. K. Soni)

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. (Quote by - Giacomo Leopardi)

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby)

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. (Quote by - Tom Hannah)

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. (Quote by - Herbert Samuel)

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. (Quote by - Joshua Liebman)

Tolerance is another word for indifference. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

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. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen. (Quote by - Wendell L. Willkie)

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

The highest result of education is tolerance. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance. (Quote by - Emile Zola)

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