Quotes About Tolerance

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

War ought to be no man's wish.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

Beware the anger of a patient man.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.