Difficulty Quotes

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One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge. — Richard Gregory
The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their… — Gunther Blumentritt
In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not… — Carl von Clausewitz
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. — Bobby Knight
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. — Emil Nolde
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often… — Edwin Paxton Hood
If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be… — T. Harv Eker
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know… — Evangelista Torricelli
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove. — Emile Chartier
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. — StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski
...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But… — Christiaan Huygens
I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I… — Suzan-Lori Parks
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and… — John By
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is… — William Crookes
Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know;… — Evariste Galois
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with… — Gregor Mendel
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule

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