Doris Lessing - Understand Quotes

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

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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we — we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.'

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Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who would really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

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Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

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If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

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I was taken around and shown things as a "useful idiot" … that's what my role was … I can't understand why I was so gullible.

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