Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip… — David Berlinski
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to… — Rajneesh
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no… — Tom Robbins
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated… — Hubertus Strughold
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing… — Bertrand Russell
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain… — Eckhart Tolle
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. — Sterling W Sill
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. — Alfred North Whitehead
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to… — Jules Henry
A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always… — Molly Crabapple
Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance. — Matthew Syed
What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court… — Richard Simmons
To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans. — Peggy Noonan
It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life. — Guy Finley
Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students… — Parker J. Palmer
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat… — Peter De Vries
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not… — Elie Wiesel
The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not… — Neil Kinnock
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'll just take amusement at being a paradox. — Burgess Meredith

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