Top 200 Tolerance Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Tolerance Quotes from famous people such as Giacomo Leopardi, Aubrie Sellers, Agnes Repplier, Dalai Lama, Penn Jillette, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Giacomo Leopardi
I just don’t have a tolerance for people being fake, I don’t think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.
Aubrie Sellers
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, ‘That’s nice.’
Penn Jillette
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.
Kim Campbell
Globalisation is happening so fast it’s confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.
Bill Pullman
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
John Scalzi
A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people’s lives or love lives.
Sasha Roiz
I’m very tough and I have a high tolerance for pain.
Julio Jones
Kerala has little tolerance for corruption. We have also made our governance as transparent as much as possible.
Pinarayi Vijayan
Don’t tell me about tolerance. Don’t tell me about acceptance. Look at me as the woman that I am and respect that.
Dominique Jackson
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
Pat Robertson
My hope is that we’re going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
Peter Thiel
If we accept ourselves as animals, and have empathy and tolerance, compassion to others, understand that humans are territorial, aggressive and have gender aspects, then we can change things.
Sara Pascoe
Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.
Liu Xiaobo
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that’s when the religion isn’t effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.
Liam Cunningham
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
You can’t reduce a country to its tolerance or intolerance.
Conchita Wurst
Every company should have zero tolerance on sexual harassment so that victims feel secure while taking a stand.
Soni Razdan
Because a lot of people really associate liberalism and Democrats with tolerance, and I found it to be quite the opposite. They’re tolerant as long as you agree with them! I felt like not only was I tolerant, I was curious and open-minded.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
It was just normal for me growing up with a family member with severe Down Syndrome. It was completely normal. She was just Auntie Linda. I loved her and she loved me. She had a spirit that was just positive. For me it taught me tolerance and acceptance of all human beings.
Daniel Lissing
Somebody should be able to come to Canada tomorrow and have success. If there’s any barriers, if there’s any racism, we’re going to send a real message that there’s zero tolerance.
Erin O’Toole
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My pranks have never been about getting a negative reaction. They’ve always been a tolerance test for the person I’m engaging with.
Kayvan Novak
The value of tolerance is central to living in today’s world – especially in diverse places like the Bronx.
Jose Serrano
We – what we need is a dialogue among civilizations. And we need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.
Manmohan Singh
I’ll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I’ve been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it’s – it’s – and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven’t been successful at it every day.
Mel Gibson
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
Hedy Lamarr
There is tolerance within our community, Muslims and Christians living together in harmony. These traditional values we have should be enhanced.
Hailemariam Desalegn
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The Founding Fathers’ instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.
David Ignatius
I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson
If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 ‘Wizard of Oz.’ I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
Kage Baker
Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.
Liu Xiaobo
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
David Eagleman
At Linfox we have zero tolerance. If any alcohol or drugs are found in any drivers’ blood, they are instantly dismissed.
Lindsay Fox
Let’s be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn’t necessarily a lot of European tolerance.
Montel Williams
Honestly, I just have to do what’s right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.
Martina McBride
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
Arabella Weir
Michael had a very low pain tolerance, and his fear of pain was incredible. And I think that doctors took advantage of him that way.
Debbie Rowe
I am a living example of PM Modi’s tolerance… he forgave me though I publicly attacked him.
Smriti Irani
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Sam Harris
The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.
Emma Walton Hamilton
I learned tolerance at a very early age.
Laurence Fishburne
Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.
Stan Lee
The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity – these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
Aga Khan IV
I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’ won’t be in their vocabulary. They won’t need them – they’ll live it.
Suzy Amis
I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.
Tommy Caldwell
There’s a group of people – maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them – who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That’s not tolerance… There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess
I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.
Shashi Tharoor
Amsterdam is a breeding ground for new creative pursuits in many areas fueled by a tolerance and openness to ideas unlike any world city I’ve been to. There is something for everyone here, especially when you dare to go off the beaten path.
Marcel Wanders
Those that preach tolerance have become absolutely prescriptive in what’s allowed to be thought.
Katie Hopkins
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
Robert Casey
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
Pat Robertson
Our values are tolerance and determination and freedom of religion, freedom to act, opportunities, equality of opportunities amongst everyone and for all.
Julie Payette
Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they’re successful; most times, they’re not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.
David Ignatius
Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism.
Guy Standing
The thing that has not had enough attention is really thinking about how to use modern breeding techniques to really look at the germplasm pools and find ways to actually improve yields and to improve the heat and drought tolerance of these crops.
Sandra E. Peterson