“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
“All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Force is often used to enforce peace and an A bomb did bring world war 2 to a shuddering halt. The funniest… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Love is such a tissue of paradoxes, and exists in such endless variety of forms and shades that you may say almost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty 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
“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'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense… — Jonathan Kieran Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Put all these numbers together and what do they add up to? In a sentence: We are the healthiest, wealthiest, and longest-lived… — Daniel Gardner 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
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image