You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“I was in harmony with everything and I was saved, too, but lost in a way as well... but I think this… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
“When we’re overloaded with opportunities and options, we suffer from what psychologists refer to as the paradox of choice.” — Mark Manson 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
As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu 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
“My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugh Black 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
When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
![“I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in…” quote by William H. Gass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a8/william-h-gass-4166_academic_i-do-have-a-very-conscious-desire-not-to_472581.jpg)
![“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles…” quote by Zeno of Elea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/814/zeno-of-elea-51778_achilles_the-second-argument-about-motion-is-the_1792000.jpg)
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