Paradoxes Quotes

83 Paradoxes quotes by 75 unique authors

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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. — Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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