Abstraction Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.”

— Raheel Farooq

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

— Ani DiFranco

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

— Ian Hacking

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

— Alan Watts

if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth…

— Susan Howatch

Paradoxes are the only truths.

— George Bernard Shaw

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

— Oscar Wilde

Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“A paradox is truth standing on its head to attract attention.”

— Nicholas Falletta

The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a…

— Mark Nepo

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

— Pablo Picasso