#tolerant

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#aged #because #been #being #compassionate

Today I bought a small Frosty. This may not seem significant, but the fact is: I'm lactose intolerant. Purchasing a small Frosty, then, is no different than hiring someone to beat me. No different in essence. The only difference, which may or may not be essential, is that, during my torture, I am gazing upon your beautiful employees. ↗

— Joe Wenderoth

#letters #letters-to-wendy-s #wendy-s-restaurant #beauty

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. ↗

— Xun Zi

#generous #gentleman #instruct #magnanimous #opens

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#approximations #certainly #closer #discoverable #generous

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

#christian #christians #course #inspire #intolerant

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#catching #groups #intolerant #parties #political

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#cause #intolerant #more #other #our

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cynics #fanatics #government #humane #limit

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#great #great thing #large #particular #people

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#each #kinsey #other #quest #really