(542 quotes found)
“The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision”
George Eliot
“When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee”
Helen Hayes
“Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength."”
Dalai Lama
“Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.Tact means not noticing them.”
Arthur Schnitzler
“Tolerance is another word for indifference.”
William Somerset Maugham
“My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.”
Roseanne Barr
“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate”
William James
“Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony”
John Perry Barlow