Definition of Toleration

Toleration

The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief.

Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters.

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Toleration Quotations

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran

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

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

Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli

Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
Lester B. Pearson

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Martin Van Buren

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Richard Mentor Johnson

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.
Marie Louise

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Toleration Translations

toleration in German is Duldung
toleration in Italian is sopportazione
toleration in Spanish is consentimiento

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