The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
“But I'm reminded that of time and time again that mother nature loves a paradox.” — Dean Vincent Carter Copy Share Image
“After a lifetime of seeking meaning, I arrive here... where understanding nothing feels like the only true understanding.” — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
“The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.” — Molly Fumia Copy Share Image
“That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted,… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg 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
“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the… — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his… — Allan Bloom 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
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages. — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when anyone else attempted paradox.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
