Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out… — Scott Barry Kaufman
Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and… — Dhani Jones
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for… — Galileo Galilei
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of… — Madeleine L'Engle
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. — Erich Fromm
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. — Galileo Galilei
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. — John Grierson
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections. — Junot Diaz
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they… — Marlene Dietrich
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present… — Paul Dirac
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox. — Wayne Dyer
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead… — George Eliot
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose… — Lukas Foss
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. — Brad Henry
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. — Frank Herbert
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed… — Herbert Hoover
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the… — Barbara Januszkiewicz
Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It… — Joan Jett
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. — Erica Jong
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and… — Erica Jong

Who Wrote These Paradox Quotes

397 authors contributed a total of 503 Paradox Quotes, led by these top contributors: