Tolerance
Capability of growth in more or less shade.
Allowed amount of variation from the standard or from exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight, etc., as in various mechanical operations;
The amount which coins, either singly or in lots, are legally allowed to vary above or below the standard of weight or fineness.
The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.
The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.
The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.
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Tolerance Quotations
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry
Tolerance Translations
tolerance in German is Toleranz
tolerance in Italian is tolleranza
tolerance in Spanish is tolerancia
tolerance in Swedish is tolerans
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