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
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- 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.
- 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.
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
- In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
- Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
- Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
- All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Best Quotes
- New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
- Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
- I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.
- I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
- Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
- Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
- Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Just because everyone can, doesn't mean they should.