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.
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Toleration made the world anti-Christian.
Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve.
It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.
And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.
If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.
The equal toleration of all religions. . . is the same as atheism.
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.
We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
