Paradox Quotes · Page 13

“Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!”

— Avijeet Das

“The paradox is that people are zealous about some brands, whether they are advertised or not.”

— Patrick Hanlon

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

— Ben Sherwood

“It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society”

— Samuel Shem

“Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox,...that longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious.”

— Jeanette Winterson

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

— Tom Peters

To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard…

— Edward Abbey

I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It…

— Rineke Dijkstra

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of…

— Agnes Denes

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

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox…

— Gary Hamel

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The paradox of health care is that it is one of the most powerful ways of fighting poverty, yet can itself become…

— The Lancet

The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through…

— Lancelot Hogben

When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is…

— Edward Kasner

“Suppose there is a group of friends who create a club where the rule is to “not follow any rules.” However, “do…

— Lucy Carter

There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything…

— Twyla Tharp

One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished…

— Florence King

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear…

— Tim O'Brien

Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many…

— David F. Ford

“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own…

— Ashim Shanker

“It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.”

— Blake Crouch

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

— Damian Kulash

“Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses”

— Fela Durotoye

“When we’re overloaded with opportunities and options, we suffer from what psychologists refer to as the paradox of choice.”

— Mark Manson

“The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“I was in harmony with everything and I was saved, too, but lost in a way as well... but I think this…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything…

— Meg Wolitzer

“It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

— Anonymous

“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.”

— G.K. Chesterton

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

— Deepak Chopra

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

— William Shakespeare

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“There is no light in knowledge unless it illuminates the life of mankind.”

— Rao Umar Javed

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

— Albert Einstein