Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old paradox quotes, paradox sayings, and paradox proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.Benjamin Franklin
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.Gail Sheehy
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Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.Edward Teller
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
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If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox willTom Robbins
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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
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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
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You are never too old to become younger!Mae West
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.Carl Rogers
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Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.Thomas Mann
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The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.Kedar Joshi
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I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.Chris Rock
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
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The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.Lailah Gifty Akita
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It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.Piero Scaruffi
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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.Albert Einstein
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It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.Linda Hogan
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.Frank Herbert
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Humans cannot create what Nature can create and Nature cannot create what Humans can create.Joey Lawsin
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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
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After clarifying where things are, ask where are we going? Don't hang onto the past unless you're heading backwards.Randall Huntsberry
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Listen carefully to the paradoxes of life. Find a way to embrace both horns of the dilemma.Randall Huntsberry
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The paradoxes of work and productivity mean that most of us have less time available to use for our own ends. People are working longer and longer hours, often without seeing any real rise in their standard of living.Charles Handy
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The whole concept of justice depends on equity and fairness for all, and yet it is easy to look at the world around us and see how clearly injustices remain.Charles Handy
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The paradox is the authentic pathos of the intellectual life, and just as only great souls are susceptible to passions, so are only great thinkers susceptible to what I call Sparadoxes, which are nothing other than grandiose thoughts, not yet fully developed.Soren Kierkegaard
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But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.Soren Kierkegaard
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.Soren Kierkegaard
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Faith itself is a wonder, and everything that is true of the paradox is also true of faith.Soren Kierkegaard
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The eternal truth has come into existence in time. That is the paradoxSoren Kierkegaard
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To yield is to be preserved whole. / To be bent is to become straight. / To be empty is to be full. / To be worn out is to be renewed. / To have little is to possess.Laozi