Quotes on Tolerance

  • Toleration—Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’  failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.—THACKERAY.
  • There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.—DEWEY.
  • Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.—ARTHUR HELPS.
  • If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?—THOMAS A KEMPIS.
  • Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.—FENELON.
  • Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.—HOSEA BALLOU.