Tolerance Quotes

"Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech."

"Travel teaches toleration."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."

"As many faiths, so many paths."

Sri Ramakrishna

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance."

Karl Popper

"Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth."

"Live and let live."

Mahavira

"The best religion is the most tolerant."

Madame de Girardin

"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

Thomas Jefferson

"Every man must get to heaven his own way."

Frederick the Great

"The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference."

Jonathan Sacks

"Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest."

Ibn Arabi

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion."

"Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life."

Wilbert E. Scheer

"Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human."

John Cogley

"Disagreement is something normal."

"Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures."

César Chávez

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

Kahlil Gibran

"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too."

Voltaire

"Concord alone is commendable."

Ashoka

"Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

Thomas Jefferson

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

William James