Paradox Quotes
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
— Yogi Berra
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
— Niels Bohr
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
— Harold Rosenberg
The paradox of writing is that you're trying to use words to express what words can't express.
— Stephen Fischer
The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.
— Kedar Joshi
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.
— William Poundstone
Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.
— Pauline Melville
I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.
— Richard Mille
He begins to introduce us to the great kingdom paradox: at the end of me, I find real life in him.
— Kyle Idleman
Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it! — E.D.E.N. Southworth
Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him
— Mike Erre
Give me an honest con man any day.
— J.D. Salinger
The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220
— John Kuypers
The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.
— C.V. Wedgwood
When you close your mouth, you say everything.
— Paul MacAlindin
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
— Charles Baudelaire
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Here is another paradox: We become better people only when we give up the quest to become better people. That
— Charles Eisenstein
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
— Ellen Page
Love is not a purpose, it's a paradox; it's not an end-goal, it's an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.
— A.J. Darkholme
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.
— Jacob Bronowski
Rain never falls on a cloud.
— Marty Rubin
The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism's life to be continued; another organism's life has to be discontinued.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.
— Leo Errera
Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.
— Felix O. Hartmann
This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.
— Bertrand Russell
The paradox of romantic love that what one possesses, one can no longer desire
was at work. — Elizabeth Bowen
To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.
— Sorin Cerin
The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.
— Terrence Real
All wisdom ends in paradox.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
— Truman Capote
It is a paradox. The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.
— Susan Jeffers
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Time becomes meaningless without memory.
— Jon Edgell
An ambitious, paradoxical world we live in - of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon. — Sreesha Divakaran
To her he was still mythic, still larger than life, still the man who could deactivate monsters. He was also the man who made them.
— Scott Cawthon
Dangerously well' - what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well
— Oliver Sacks
A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.
— Clark Moustakas
Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal
— Soren Kierkegaard
The moment we try to capture and encapsulate Truth, we have paradox, confusion, contention [and] doubt[.]
— Steve Hagen
The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.
— Dinesh D'Souza
They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female
— Julie Anne Long
A paradox may be paradoctored.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.
— Kedar Joshi
Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
— Simon Van Booy
For faith is this paradox, that the particular is higher than the universal
— Soren Kierkegaard
to a paradox in our experience of agency: to be master of your own stuff entails also being mastered by it.
— Matthew B. Crawford
A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.
— Boris Fishman
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
— Frank Herbert
If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.
— Tom Robbins
The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.
— Juefan Huihong
Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty all rolled into one.
— Tahereh Mafi
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
— Edward Griffith Begle
It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.
— David Michie
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
— Mary Parker Follett
Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.
— Andy Mineo
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
— Alexander Pushkin
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
— Christopher Hitchens
Ah Life,Thou art a false truth! — Raheel Farooq
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
— Aristotle.
Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.
— John Myers Myers
Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.
— Joshua Edward Smith
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
— Oscar Wilde
Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
— Wilbur Smith
A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.
— Nema Al-Araby
Without death Death is dead
— Silje Akselberg Iversen
