Ever Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image “God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ever Generation God God knows Knows Learns Nobody Why
However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Whatever the one generation may learn from the other, that which is genuinely human no generation learns from the foregoing...Thus no generation has learned… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much. — Nick Simmons Copy Share Image
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
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I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
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I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
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