Paradox Quotes

Paradox Quote of the day

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

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

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

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

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

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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.

You are never too old to become younger!

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

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

No paradox, no progress.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

We live to survive our paradoxes.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

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