Wendell Willkie Quotes

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

Wendell Willkie

Wendell Willkie

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman
- Courage
- Tolerance
- Test
I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

Damon Galgut
- Work
- Night
- Day
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright
- True
- Hope
- Assumption
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

Sam Harris
- People
- Doubt
- Values
When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

Edmund Morgan
- America
- Together
- History
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

Tariq Ramadan
- Life
- Real
- Diversity