Top 470 Tolerant Quotes & Sayings

Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.

My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life.

We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and very quick to forgive. We need not be tolerant of sin, but we must become tolerant and forgiving of the sinner.

It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.

The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will treat you with respect. Today, tolerant means - 'you must approve of everything I do.' There's a difference between tolerance and approval. Jesus accepted everyone no matter who they were. He doesn't approve of everything I do, or you do, or anybody else does either. You can be accepting without being approving.

When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

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.

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.

We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For example, Turkey became much more tolerant towards Kurdish nationalists when the killing of Turkish soldiers stopped in southeastern Turkey and body bags stopped arriving. Now, since June there's been a revival of Kurdish attacks on Turkish troops - something like 150 people have been killed by terrorists supplied from and operating out of bases in northern Iraq. So Turks are feeling much less tolerant of Kurdish nationalism.

I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights.

We need tolerant men. We must all give in a little.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

I really don't have a problem with gay marriage... because I'm tolerant and rational.

I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.

Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).

The left, unfortunately, participates in bullying more than the right does. They say they're tolerant, and they're anything but tolerant of people who disagree with them and support traditional values.

We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.

We should be tolerant to people who are tolerant to us. We should be intolerant to people who are intolerant to us.

I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.

I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other.

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

America is very tolerant of mistakes.

Britain is an open and tolerant country.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

If the day-to-day culture is saying it's OK to not be inclusive or tolerant, that it's OK to be bigoted, then it's your responsibility to double down and make it OK in storytelling to be inclusive and tolerant.

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.

Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter how wrong?

I think that as our country becomes more tolerant as a whole of certain things, hopefully becomes more tolerant, there's a way that certain kinds of bullying will be passe and unacceptable.

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance