I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives. — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Sex is logically impossible after marriage. You have to overcome the paradox of Not this again, and Hey, where did you learn… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a paradox, every joy must taste of pain, every goodness bears a wound, every faded memory stains the mind” — Poeticmusings Copy Share Image
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but… — David Means Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image