Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

—Napoleon Hill

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

—G.K. Chesterton

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

—Ralph W. Sockman

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

—Charlotte Bronte

People are very open-minded about new things — as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.

—Charles F. Kettering

Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity — as long as you don’t point out that people are different.

—Colin Quinn

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

—Chinese proverb

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation, or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

—Eric Hoffer

Xenophobia doesn’t benefit anybody unless you’re playing high-stakes Scrabble.

—Dennis Miller

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

—Doug Floyd