Paradox Quotes · Page 13

“First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.”

— John K. Brown

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

— Ray Metzker

“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”

— Stephen Fischer

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

— Anonymous

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

— John Grierson

“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not…

— Criss Jami

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have…

— Michio Kaku

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox…

— Julia Leigh

Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but…

— David Means

There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely…

— Richard Dawkins

“Is it a paradox to firmly state in one breath that you don't believe in an almighty, and in that same instance,…

— D W Wilkin

“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it…

— Abhijit Naskar

But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So…

— Bill Reid

I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page…

— Neil Gaiman

“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so…

— Ken Wytsma

“Contrary to the dogma downloaded from our many cult-like institutions of higher (actually lower) learning, we’re not in any way separate from…

— Sol Luckman

Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if…

— Tom Robbins

“But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts…

— Douglas Adams

But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego…

— Rajneesh

“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I…

— Bohumil Hrabal

The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,…

— E. O. Wilson

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

— Linda Hogan

“The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.”

— Molly Fumia

“But I'm reminded that of time and time again that mother nature loves a paradox.”

— Dean Vincent Carter

“After a lifetime of seeking meaning, I arrive here... where understanding nothing feels like the only true understanding.”

— Monika Ajay Kaul

“Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions.”

— Deyth Banger

What weight does the glory truly hold, when the arena that you were playing in was not significant to begin with?

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

— William Poundstone

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

— Oscar Wilde

There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

— David Foster Wallace

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

— Matthew Syed

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

— Andy Mineo

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

— Rumi

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

— Mark Twain

“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.”

— David Shenk

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

— Mother Teresa

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)

— Lucy Maud Montgomery