Top Paradox Quotes

The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time.

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

Paradox Definition

(n.) A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of Engli...

Technology has given the dumb a tongue

In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.

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

Sometimes love doesn't look like what we think it should look like. Sometimes it's paradoxical. Sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone. Sometimes we have to be more honest than we thought...

Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive.

he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better

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

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies,a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to devote my attent...

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

How does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant.Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Merv...

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

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad...

The method of addition is quite charming if it involves adding to the self such things as a cat, a dog, roast pork, love of the sea or of cold showers. But the matter becomes less idyllic if a person...