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Experience Quotes by Doris Lessing
- Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they…
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of…
- I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps…
- At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing…
- Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. — Paulo Coelho
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson