“In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest.”

— Henry Miller

The Books in My Life (1952) Preface (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 12)

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American novelist 1891–1980

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Reader’s Digest (May 1979)

“In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

1962, Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York (549)

“Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

Source: Spiritual Perspectives And Human Facts

“If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

The Exploration of Space (1951), p. 111
1950s

“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 42.

“[Our policy] has always been to deal first with matters which are easiest to resolve and leave the most difficult ones until last.”

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor

“Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.”

Katharine Graham (1917–2001) American publisher

Quoted by Jane Howard in The Power That Didn't Corrupt http://books.google.com/books?id=MNSxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Bromidic+though+it+may+sound+some+questions+don-t+have+answers+which+is+a+terribly+difficult+lesson+to+learn%22, Ms. magazine (October 1974)

“That fondness for science, … that affability and condescension which God shows to the learned, that promptitude with which he protects and supports them in the elucidation of obscurities and in the removal of difficulties, has encouraged me to compose a short work on calculating by al-jabr and al-muqabala, confining it to what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic.”

Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

As quoted in: Victor J. Katz (2009) A history of mathematics: an introduction. p. 271

“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 20; this derives from an expression attributed to Euclid.

“Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nature

“In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest.”

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