There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
~ Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
~ Edmund Burke

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
~ Frank Moore Colby

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

Travel teaches tolerance.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
~ Edward M. Forster

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
~ Sir James Goldsmith

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
~ Sidney J. Harris

The highest result of education is tolerance.
~ Helen Keller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
~ Helen Keller

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.
~ Thomas p Kempis

People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
~ Charles F. Kettering

To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.
~ F. J. Kinsman

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
~ Giacomo Leopardi

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.
~ Thomas More

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award]
~ Sean Penn

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
~ Herbert Samuel