The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What weight does the glory truly hold, when the arena that you were playing in was not significant to begin with? — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
“Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control. — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
“But I'm reminded that of time and time again that mother nature loves a paradox.” — Dean Vincent Carter Copy Share Image
“Unless you admit it to yourself, that you don’t know what is going on, will you experience what is going on. The… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“the paradox of Man was the fact that one might have been made in the image of God, yet it was often… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music,… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
“He desired her vaguely but without conviction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Richard P Feynman was fascinated by the Moon; he tried in earnest to see the Moon. But science could only see the… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“After a lifetime of seeking meaning, I arrive here... where understanding nothing feels like the only true understanding.” — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
“The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.” — Molly Fumia Copy Share Image
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent. — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
