Difficult Subjects Quotes

• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Men

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, David Taffel (2005). “The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life”, p.45, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

  Ben Bernanke

  Running, Car, Trying

  Interview with Arthur J. Rolnick, www.minneapolisfed.org. June 1, 2004.

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• The Kingdom of God is Within You.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosis

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Non-Fiction of Leo Tolstoy: (Includes A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, A Letter to a Hindu, Youth, Tolstoy on Shakespeare, What to Do)”, p.138, Golgotha Press

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• I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Dark, Reflection, Examination

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• Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

  Gore Vidal

  Class, Difficult, Deals

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most

  Philippe Halsman

  Mother, Children, People

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• We're going to show great heart. DACA is a very, very difficult subjects, one of the most difficult. You have these incredible kids in many cases, not in all cases, in some of the cases they are gang members and drug dealers, too. But you have some absolutely incredible kids, I would say mostly. They were brought here in such a way, it's a very, very tough subject.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Kids, Gang Members

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about more than we do. And it's funny, of course, so we have that release valve with absurdism. It offers us a safe way to explore difficult subject matter.

  Laurie Foos

  Fiction, Elements, Examination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

  Maimonides

  Teaching, Men, Intelligent

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

  Plato

  Difficult, Geometry, Prove

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• Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Live Life, Needs, World

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• We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.

  Lynn Steen

  Believe, School, Intellectual

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• Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies.

  Sara Quin

  Fun, Reality, Phones

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• I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

  Mika

  Song, Thinking, Matter

  "Mika: In Pursuit Of Pure Pop". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 24, 2009.

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• There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

  Rachel Johnson

  Difficult, Subjects

  "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.

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• Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.

  James Fadiman

  Laughter, Thinking, Medicine

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• Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions with Members of Congress in which they can explain in detail the reasons for positions they advocate. Because our congressional representation is based on geographical boundaries, the lobbyists who speak for the various economic, commercial, and other functional interests of this country serve a very useful purpose and have assumed an important role in the legislative process.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Fashion, Important

  "To Keep the Lobbyist Within Bounds". The New York Times Magazine, February 19, 1956.

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• I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

  G. H. Hardy

  Good Man, Example, Waste

  "Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work". Book by G. H. Hardy, 1940.

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