Toleration Quotes

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

Toleration is the best religion.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

Travel teaches toleration.

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.