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Quotes About Tolerance

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...
~ Baha'u'llah
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
~ Robin Hobb
Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
~ Sharon Creech
What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
~ Hannah Arendt
It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
~ Confucius
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.
~ H. L. Mencken
Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
~ Nelson Mandela
I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.
~ Oswald Pohl
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
~ Andre Gide
Don't have a cow, man.
~ Matt Groening
Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.
~ Paul Tournier
A man could get used to anything if he had to.
~ Richard Matheson
Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.
~ Heinrich Heine
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
~ Joseph Addison
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
~ Stevie Smith
I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.
~ Tommy Lee
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
~ William Allingham
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.
~ Euripides
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
~ Euripides
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
~ George Santayana