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
- 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.
- I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
- It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
- 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 you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
- It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- 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.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Best Quotes
- In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
- Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
- Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
- You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.
- Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
- I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.
- Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
- So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
- I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.