03 Jun 2009 12:42 pm
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Here are some inspirational tolerance quotes.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
~Giacomo Leopardi

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. ~Helen Keller

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
~ Henry David Thoreau

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
~Hedy Lamarr

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
~ Sir Walter Besant

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
~W. Somerset Maugham

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.
~Scott Hamilton

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
~Giacomo Leopardi

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
~Dalai Lama’s quote on Tolerance

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Kahlil Gibran

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
~Emile Zola

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
~ George Eliot

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 on courage and tolerance

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
~Albert Einstein

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
~Edmund Burke

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.
~Voltaire

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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