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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best.
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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