And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).
Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?
I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.
It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.
I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?
Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.
I do not want to be tolerated, or misnamed. I want to be recognized.
I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated. . . Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.
She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. “She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren’t for the two subs in the pack, I’d be on the bottom. And she wouldn’t stand up in my presence for guilt.
Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.
I feel like the places where I like to live, or study, or visit are places where people's differences are celebrated rather than just tolerated.
Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.
Go where youre celebrated - not just tolerated.