Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“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
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
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 assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
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
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there… — Umberto Eco 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
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
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“The world’s so upside down, I’m starting to think gravity is just peer pressure. What’s called normal feels like a costume party… — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
“By connecting to nowhere you must in turn connect to everywhere, in the course of which becoming wise. Nothing is permanent, but… — Alan Moore 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
“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
“500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of the magnificent image of a starry sky. Thus… — Alija Ali Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
“Well, that’s one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided… — Paul Dirac 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
“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
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
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. — Andrew Hudgins Copy Share Image
“What explains these paradoxes? No doubt there are the usual suspects. First, the U.S. is privately recognized as a prosperous, free and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a paradox that the economic value of software is falling even as its strategic value rises, and paradoxes are by… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
