Paradox Quotes

503 quotes by 403 authors

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an… — Douglas Adams
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. — Niels Bohr
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the… — Gerald Weinberg
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher… — Edwin Markham
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is… — James A. Baldwin
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding… — Soren Kierkegaard
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws… — Nicholas Sparks
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. — Charles Caleb Colton
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. — Hugh Black
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard
Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas. — Mandell Creighton
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and… — Barry Lopez
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits… — Felix Dennis
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves;… — Richard Sibbes
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any… — Ramana Maharshi
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity… — Marilyn Ferguson

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