First, the tolerance of indifference. We may be tolerant because we do not care, because the issue at stake does not concern us.

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Second, the tolerance of policy. We may be tolerant because we think we should lose more than we gain by fighting the man or the measure.

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Third, the tolerance of helplessness. We may be tolerant because we realize that the enemy holds the field and that resistance will be futile.

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Fourth, the tolerance of pure respect for man. We may be tolerant because we respect even a man’s right to think wrong, because we agree with Voltaire when he wrote to Helvetius, “I wholly disapprove of what you say, and will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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Fifth, the tolerance of spiritual sympathy. We may be tolerant because we feel a spiritual comradeship with the man whose purpose is fine even if his proposition is false.

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Sixth, the tolerance of an enlarged view of truth. We may be tolerant because we have come to realize that truth is larger than any one man’s conception of it, even if we are the one man in question.

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Quoted in Hugh B. Brown, “The Phenomenon of Mormonism”, Continuing the Quest, pp. 213-214

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