Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate… — Herman Kahn
The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler… — Michio Kaku
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. — Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker… — Soren Kierkegaard
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. — Vince Lombardi
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we… — Kathy Mattea
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in… — Henri Nouwen
In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck… — Rick Perry
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the… — Ralph Peters
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when… — Marcel Proust
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. — John Ruskin
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. — Paul Samuelson
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. — Gail Sheehy
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the… — Simon Sinek
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of… — Jane Smiley
The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research -… — James Surowiecki
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. — Mother Teresa
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and… — Paul Valery
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. — Alan Watts
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will

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