“As Carl Rogers, one of the founders of humanistic psychology, once noted: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as… — William Ury Copy Share Image
There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western… — Richard Layard, Baron Layard Copy Share Image
I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created… — Paul Craig Roberts 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
“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
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
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can… — Wendell Willkie 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
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big… — Katerina Graham Copy Share Image
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it.… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
“Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of… — I.I. Gitelson Copy Share Image
“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
