Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent. — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think… — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Love is indeed an enigma. Nobody can tell if it is real. Nobody can feel if it is certain. And mostly, nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
We dream to suffer, but we also suffer to dream. Love to hurt as we hurt to love. We speak kindly to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had? The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Joshua to Angela: "Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun." She looked at him… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
“When you are going on a spiritual path, as I explain it, you are basically raising your vibration. You then begin to… — Dan Desmarques Copy Share Image
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“... the Gen Y paradox: an entire generation of employees with the attitude that they know how to communicate with anybody, anytime,… — Bill Jensen 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
“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,'… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
“Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control. — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What weight does the glory truly hold, when the arena that you were playing in was not significant to begin with? — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
“Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance. — Matthew Syed Copy Share Image
