Doris Lessing Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

  Doris Lessing

  Education, Learning, Understanding

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

• 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 is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Pain, Writing

• It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Stupid, Understanding

  Doris Lessing (2013). “Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

• Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Women, Unique

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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