Wisdom Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally

“A paradox is truth standing on its head to attract attention.”

— Nicholas Falletta

“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities…

— Oscar Wilde

“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.”

— John A. Vanek

“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time…

— Jim Collins

“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of…

— Andrew Barger

“irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which…

— Fernando Pessoa

“A wise man, recognizing that the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, and so he escapes suffering.” The”

— Janet Evanovich

“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some other some-such…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac

“I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau