Quotes of: Paradox Keyword

Pain is the only pleasure in the world, this is the biggest paradox!

SHE- Stories of Modern Indian Women

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

The Pursuit of God

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

The Time Paradox

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

Louise Bates Ames

The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.

Laren Grey Umphlett

...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

Mark Dintenfass

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Robert South

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

T. S. Eliot

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

I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

Barry Schwartz

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

Tom Rachman

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

Carl Rogers

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 to leave.

Anatole Broyard

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Harold Evans

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

Dhani Jones

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Alan Watts

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

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

The Goldfinch

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

Markings