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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

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent. — Ray Metzker

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl R. Rogers

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

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more. — David Brin

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 difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time. — J.R. Rim

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

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass

Or
to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win. — Donna Tartt

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

Paradox ... Rich in natural resources but poor in the quality of our human resource — Fela Durotoye

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

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace. — Peter Senge

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

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. — Karl Marx

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true! — C.B. Murphy

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

Chaos is a creator of information - another apparent paradox. — James Gleick

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

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime ... — Brian Cox

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III) — Oscar Wilde

To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death. — Sorin Cerin

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him. — Anthony Storr

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

Live at the empty heart of paradox.
I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek. — Rumi

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

The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was. — Paul La Farge

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

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love. — A.W. Tozer

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians. — Dinesh D'Souza

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom. — Os Guinness

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

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox. — James Clavell

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

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

Yet the paradox of science is that every answer breeds at least two new questions. More tools, more answers, ever more questions. — Kevin Kelly

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? — Brad Warner

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

This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin

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

Unless you admit it to yourself, that you don't know what is going on, will you experience what is going on. The ultimate paradox of life. — Art Hochberg

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! — Charles Caleb Colton