Definition of Tolerate

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Definition of Tolerate
	Tolerate To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. Related Definitions: Allow, As, Be, By, Done, Doubtful, Hindrance, Negatively, Not, Or, Permit, Preventing, Prohibition, Put, Restrain, Suffer, To, Tolerate, Up, With, Without

Tolerate Quotations

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
Thomas Friedman

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing

Tolerate Translations

tolerate in Dutch is aanzien, lijden, dulden, toelaten
tolerate in German is vertragen, dulden, dulden, zulassen
tolerate in Portuguese is tolere
tolerate in Spanish is caber, aguantar, tolerar

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