Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing… — Erich Segal
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing… — Octavio Paz
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. — Banksy
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't… — Ram Dass
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox. — Russell Brand
You are never too old to become younger! — Mae West
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? — George Carlin
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. — Albert Einstein
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if… — Margaret Atwood
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit… — Nicholas Sparks
if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides… — Susan Howatch
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . . — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery… — R A Salvatore
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is… — Franz Kafka
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond… — Douglas Adams
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as… — Northrop Frye
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full. — Wilbur Smith
The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and… — Soren Kierkegaard
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.… — Elizabeth Bowen
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we… — Diane Ackerman
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. — Jeanette Winterson
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. — Mark Twain
The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.… — Craig Ferguson

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