A Quote by Doris Lessing

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
English - Novelist
October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.

Meles Zenawi

Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

Caragh M. O'Brien

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

Theodore Roosevelt

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

Kedar Joshi

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

Andrew Dickson White

Most of us talk ourselves out of our own ideas, because we're our own worst enemy.

Kandi Burruss

Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.

Robert Kiyosaki

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

Roderick Thorp

This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.

Swami Vivekananda

Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.

Mia Farrow

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

H. L. Mencken

I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.

David Wright

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

Mark Twain

The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.

Ed Smith

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