Lester B. Pearson Quotes

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we do away with him altogether.

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

I suffered fools so gladly.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

I have very little patience with children.

I am not patient.

I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

The counsels of impatience and hatred can always be supported by the crudest and cheapest symbols; for the counsels of moderation, the reasons are often intricate, rather than emotional, and difficult to explain

I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.

Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.