Paradoxes Quotes
83 Paradoxes quotes by 75 unique authors
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The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of…
— Lancelot Hogben
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The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait…
— Anatole Broyard
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This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer…
— Randy Alcorn
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"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively…
— Michio Kaku
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Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to…
— Carl Jung
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every…
— Ogden Nash
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There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or…
— Andy Hargreaves
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The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of concluding…
— Niels Henrik Abel
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There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if…
— Terence McKenna
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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
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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
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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
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life…
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
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The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one…
— Niels Henrik Abel
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Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us…
— Sue Thoele
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in…
— Alain de Botton
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This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its…
— F L Lucas
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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