“To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne) — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.” — Darren Main Copy Share Image
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me.” — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It… — Ugo Mochi Copy Share Image
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“It's all about the "French Paradox," that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion… — Douglas Petrie Copy Share Image
“It's a bit like staring into another dimension, one that has a different set of mathematical and physical laws. For me, it… — Anna Jarzab Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
If you don't risk anything, you gain nothing. When you gain nothing, you risk even more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“My journey toward liberation is both unique to me, and the same as yours. And I am learning to peacefully rest in… — Søren Sørenson Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles? — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox: it is against the law to defraud some one but legal, and highly lucrative, to defraud every one.” — Wes Henricksen Copy Share Image
“I am not old, I am not young, I'm possibilities unsung. I am paradox made flesh, heartbeat born of cosmic hum.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Paradox...Rich in natural resources but poor in the quality of our human resource” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
