Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
“He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to… — C. R. Strahan Copy Share Image
“The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.” — Juefan Huihong Copy Share Image
“Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions.” — Deyth Banger 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
“Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more… — Thaddeus Golas 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 ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of… — Bob Hamilton Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Albeit, you are the only one to do the right thing, never feel alone. Always keep in mind that you're trying something… — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. — Mark Twain 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
Ever since I was a little kid, there was something about change that scared me so much, but, at the same time,… — MO 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
The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image