... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
“Hypocritical paradoxes arise within an individual in proportion to their growing status or fame.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It’s not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is… — Galileo Galilei 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
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They… — Brian May Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“We human beings are paradoxes. We love the fruits of commitment, love, and order. Yet a dark side of us is often… — Gordon MacDonald Copy Share Image
When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“It is a gray and a lonely place in which we live, all of us, swinging between desperation and emptiness, and all… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It would distort markets. Besides, if I bought a load of gold when I thought the price was going up, then it… — Mark Speed Copy Share Image
“No, I'm serious," Frankie insisted, fed up with being silenced. "Why didn't you just make me a normie?" Viktor sighed. "Because that's… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
“Jesus used paradoxes to help us see the kingdom of God. His paradoxical statements turned the secular world upside down. As we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image