Paradox Quotes - Page 26

• The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

  Ian Hacking

  Ideas, Reactions

  Ian Hacking (2001). “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

  Andrew Ferguson

  Journalism, Source, Print

  "Scotty: All the News That's Fit to Schmooze". The Weekly Standard, February 24, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Evan Parker

  Philosophical, Contradiction, Concern

  7 Copy quote

• Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Fashion, Different, Influence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender.

  Glenda Green

  Heart, Love Is, Expectations

  6 Copy quote

• Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

  Mason Cooley

  Contradiction

  4 Copy quote

• There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.

  Itzhak Bentov

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

  Itzhak Bentov (2000). “A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation”, p.78, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Reality, Afterlife, Religion

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Lying

  20 Copy quote

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

  Paul Samuelson

  Greed, Intriguing, Materialism

  53 Copy quote

• Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Wells, Including

  11 Copy quote

• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Regret, Sleep

  64 Copy quote

• When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

  Wendell Willkie

  Freedom, Opportunity, Society

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Selfish

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Vision, Needs

  "The Paradoxes Of Leadership: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Memories, Intellectual

  12 Copy quote

• The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

  Piero Scaruffi

  Innovation, Imitation, Accepted

  47 Copy quote

• The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Careers, Listening

  "Apple: What Happens Now?". www.newyorker.com. August 24, 2011.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

  Howard Thurman

  Adventure, Stories, Bears

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Glenn Close

  People, Society, Actresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Alive, Mark, Ecstasy

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, True Life, Life Is

  Thomas Merton (2008). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.35, Sounds True

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Grace, Prejudice

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

  Jack Bruce

  Jew, Anti Semitism

  14 Copy quote

• We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

  Ben Shahn

  Taken, Ordinary, Done

  Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source