Quotes with tolerate

  • The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
  • The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

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  • Eric Hoffer Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Abe Fortas Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Arlo Guthrie Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
    Arlo Guthrie
    American folk singer-songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Bernard Berenson German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Reggie Jackson I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
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  • Charles de Gaulle I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Raymond Chandler I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Doris Lessing In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Pope Gregory VII It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • William Allen White Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Fleur Adcock Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."
    Fleur Adcock
    New Zealand poet and editor (1934 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • James Thurber The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Graham The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
    Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition,
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Douglas Engelbart The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
    Douglas Engelbart
    American engineer and inventor (1925 - 2013)
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  • Erich Fromm The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Ben Horowitz The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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