Quotes of: Paradox Keyword

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

Ridley Scott

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

George Will

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

Romola Garai

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

Jean Reno

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Adrienne Clarkson

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Audrey Tautou

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!

Life

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.

Andrew Hudgins

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

Seth Godin

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Evan Parker

First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.

John K. Brown

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

Robert Winston

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Mother Teresa

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

Richard Mille

The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.

Love

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Vaclav Havel

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

John Ruskin

the forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions.

Love's Paradox