Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
“As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so… — Ken Wytsma Copy Share Image
“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Pops added,you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve. And if you do, you never get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“What a paradox is there: flying higher into heaven, at the same time being forced to work deeper into the hell of… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It is a paradox that the economic value of software is falling even as its strategic value rises, and paradoxes are by… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the… — George Clayton Johnson Copy Share Image
“And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won’t make a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
![“I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.” quote by Luis Bunuel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3be/luis-bunuel-9740_accounts_i-find-it-science-analytical-pretentious_2419800.png)
![“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I was already somewhere else. I bowed down not just to the trees, [...] but I bowed down as well to those three tomcats, I bowed to myself in the mirror, and smiled because I no longer…” quote by Bohumil Hrabal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d26/bohumil-hrabal-15672_fate_i-moved-through-the-world-like-a-team-of_2343051.jpg)
![“Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3dc/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_actor_conditions-in-the-movie-industry-somehow_54940.jpg)
![“There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.” quote by Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/352/laurence-sterne-1405_christianity_there-is-not-a-greater-paradox-in-nature_1655550.jpg)
![“Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f” quote by Gary Hamel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/44f/gary-hamel-3793_ability_resilience-is-based-on-the-ability-to-em_2277317.png)
