In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
- You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
- In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
- Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
- My father was in the First World War.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- When there's a war, people get married.
Best Quotes
- Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
- Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
- Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
- I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
- A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
- Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
- God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
- I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
- I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.
- It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.