A Quote by William S. Burroughs

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs
American - Writer
February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

Pablo Casals

The simplest is always the most difficult.

Masaaki Hatsumi

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Frances Wright

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Guy de Maupassant

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.

Richard J. Foster

I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.

Massimiliano Allegri

I think the hardest questions had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

Max Lucado

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Richard Bach

Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.

Bill Bradley

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Northrop Frye

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

N. T. Wright

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Samuel P. Huntington

The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

Ingrid Bengis

Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

Carl von Clausewitz

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