Difficulty Quotes - page 3

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty. (Epictetus)
In science, as in the playing card experiment, novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. View quote
Thomas Samuel Kuhn
The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i. e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty. View quote
Austen Chamberlain
What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence! View quote
Walter Raleigh
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. View quote
Joseph Addison
The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is. View quote
Georges Bataille
The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world. (Kirsten Gillibrand)
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting. View quote
André Maurois
Mankind have infinite difficulty in reaching new creations, and therefore cherish the once developed forms as sacred heirlooms. View quote
Theodor Mommsen
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. View quote
Barbara Kruger
Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind. View quote
Dean Koontz
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life. View quote
James Baldwin
We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove. View quote
Émile Chartier
I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art. View quote
El Greco
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values. View quote
Georg Brandes
The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition. View quote
Laura Riding