Tolerance Test

Famous quotes containing the words tolerance and/or test:

    “Children who begin life with an eagerness to please, need to know that not pleasing is also all right now and then. They learn tolerance for others’ faults through our tolerance of their own.”
    —Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)

    “In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)