Difficult - Quotes
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.
The less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.
It is very difficult to be sure of anything, once you begin doubting your memory on principle.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.
Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the stool; it makes them soggy and most difficult to relight.
If you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself then the truth will not be withheld from you.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Fjodor Mihajlovics Dosztojevszkij
It is difficult to say [...] what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.