“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (1866)
“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth." by Patrick Rothfuss?
Patrick Rothfuss236
American fantasy writer 1973Related quotes
“Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
I'm not Stiller (1955)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119
“There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”
Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player
“Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
"Of Time, and Gully Foyle", Foreword to a 1999 edition of The Stars My Destination (1956)
Context: You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading