Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will… — Soren Kierkegaard
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act… — M. Scott Peck
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft,… — Laozi
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin
Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken… — Martin Sheen
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. — Peter Drucker
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! — Agnes Repplier
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and… — Steven Patrick Morrissey
Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet… — Michio Kaku
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension… — Paulo Coelho
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his… — Malcolm Gladwell
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the… — Henry Giroux
The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past… — Henry Petroski
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. — Thomas Wolfe
He was a great thundering paradox of a man. — William Manchester
This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the… — Bill Owens
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is… — Hugo Black
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst… — Arthur Henderson
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed,… — James Buchan
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are… — Julia Leigh
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me. — Jean Reno
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom… — Os Guinness
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. — Mother Teresa Of Calcutta
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful… — Winston Churchill

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