“Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
When you're under pressure and you're getting hammered by the media, it is a burden. It's the opinions that get you, and… — David James Copy Share Image
The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians. — Dinesh D'Souza 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… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
“Your reality is not gone, but the image of it is not with you anymore. I will be your mirror of reality;… — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Q: The Continuum didn't think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did...We wanted to see if you had… — Brannon Braga Copy Share Image
Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Stockdale Paradox This finding is named after Admiral James Stockdale, winner of the Medal of Honor, who survived seven years in a… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“...feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.” — Adam Elenbaas Copy Share Image
When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress. — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
“Even if you turn back the clock of the whole universe, you still can't stop and evildoer from exercising his free will.” — Bob Bello Copy Share Image
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will Copy Share Image
“And when I'm lonely, with everyone around I go to my happy place where I'm alone” — Talia Basma Copy Share Image
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it? — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years. — George Carlin 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
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
“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
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
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
“Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when anyone else attempted paradox.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image