Paradox Quotes

First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

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

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

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

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

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.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

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

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

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.

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.

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.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

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

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

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

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

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

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

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