I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. ~Plato
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. ~Eric Hoffer
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human. ~Simon Sinek
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. ~Oscar Wilde
The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work ~Bill Jensen
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox? ~Tom Robbins
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. ~Galileo Galilei
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~Lao Tzu
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~John Stuart Mill
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions ~Charles Caleb Colton
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~Erica Jong
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ~Erich Fromm
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ~Criss Jami
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ~George Eliot
When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox ~Mason Cooley
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears ~Adyashanti
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ~Rabindranath Tagore
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. ~George Bernard Shaw
Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention ~Earl Warren
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~Niels Bohr
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. ~Arnold Toynbee
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. ~Shana Alexander
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. ~Fiona Apple
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. ~William Hazlitt
I'm not offended until you think I'm offended. ~Criss Jami
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. ~Soren Kierkegaard
Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed. ~C. JoyBell C.
Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy. ~Gilles Deleuze
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. ~Jack London
Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ~Nancy Cartwright
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. ~Benjamin Franklin
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. ~Gail Sheehy
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. ~Edward Teller
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown
If complexity doesn’t beat you, paradox will ~Tom Robbins
If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy. ~T. Harv Eker
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ~Hugo Black
You are never too old to become younger! ~Mae West
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ~Carl Rogers
Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all. ~Thomas Mann
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. ~Kedar Joshi
I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot. ~Chris Rock
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. ~Oscar Wilde
The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age. ~Lailah Gifty Akita
It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy. ~Piero Scaruffi
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. ~Albert Einstein
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. ~Linda Hogan
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
Humans cannot create what Nature can create and Nature cannot create what Humans can create. ~Joey Lawsin
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
