Troublesome Quotes
128 quotes by 108 authors
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that…
— Edmund Husserl
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My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I…
— Edmund Burke
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With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome…
— Ogden Nash
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with…
— Leon Chaitow
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To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
— William Penn
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If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed…
— Rudolf Carnap
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The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our…
— Catherine Crowe
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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
— John Dewey
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we…
— George Eliot
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
— William Penn
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