Paradox Quotes · Page 13

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They…

— Brian May

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

— Harry Connick, Jr

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

— Mark Haddon

“The Elegance Paradox is this: to create elegance requires entirely inelegant preparation, but nobody should be able to see that.”

— Dan Ward

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

“the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous”

— Martin Luther

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

— Ellen Page

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

— Ruth Stout

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite…

— Mu Xin

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories,…

— Robin Wasserman

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that…

— Seth

“A clear Brunian ‘coincidence of contraries’ has surfaced again, for to be happy when miserable translates Bruno’s paradoxical motto which preceded his…

— Finn Fordham

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving…

— Arthur Henderson

“Can you grasp your right fist with your right hand? Obviously not -- your hand can't grasp itself. But there's another, less…

— Mark Fabi

I had always been troubled by the liberal paradox of wanting everyone to be treated the same, while at the same time…

— Richard Herring

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening…

— Emma Donoghue

There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating.…

— Robin Cook

I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays…

— Amanda Palmer

“Moravec’s paradox, nicely summarized by Wikipedia as “the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning…

— Anonymous

I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is…

— Robert Montgomery

In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is…

— Henci Goer

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory…

— Joseph Campbell

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.

— Betsy Lerner

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

— Douglas Adams

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

— Adyashanti

“Beauty is a paradox, every joy must taste of pain, every goodness bears a wound, every faded memory stains the mind”

— Poeticmusings

“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of…

— C. JoyBell C

Sex is logically impossible after marriage. You have to overcome the paradox of Not this again, and Hey, where did you learn…

— Emo Philips

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

— William Poundstone

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

— Piero Scaruffi

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

— Earl Warren

We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.

— Leonard Jacobson

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

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

— Albert Einstein