60+ Best Paradox Quotes – Paradox Quotes and Sayings

Best Paradox Quotes

  • “By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.” —Galileo Galilei
  • “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” —John Stuart Mill
  • “Eclecticism – every truth is so true that any truth must be false.” —F. H. Bradley
  • “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” —Carl Rogers
  • “I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.” —Charles Bukowski
  • “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” —Rabindranath Tagore
  • “The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.” —Fiona Apple
  • “But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.” —George Eliot
  • “Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.” —P. G. Wodehouse
  • “I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that’s making me successful.” —Shania Twain

Paradox Quotes and Sayings

  • “A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.” —Criss Jami
  • “If complexity doesn’t beat you, paradox will.” —Tom Robbins
  • “I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.” —Criss Jami
  • “You are never too old to become younger! —Mae West
  • “By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.” —Galileo Galilei
  • “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” —Erica Jong
  • “The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.” —Kedar Joshi
  • “Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.” —Charles Caleb Colton
  • “Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.” —Gilles Deleuze
  • “It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.” —Piero Scaruffi
  • “The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears. Adyashanti
  • “The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.” —Bill Jensen
  • “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” —John Stuart Mill
  • “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
  • “Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention.” —Earl Warren
  • “The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.” —Erich Fromm
  • “When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.” —Mason Cooley
  • “Life is a paradox, you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” —Nancy Cartwright
  • “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” —Frank Herbert
  • “The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.” —Soren Kierkegaard
  • “Humans cannot create what Nature can create and Nature cannot create what Humans can create.” —Joey Lawsin
  • “I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.” —Chris Rock
  • “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” —Plato
  • “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” —Niels Bohr
  • “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” —Rabindranath Tagore
  • “The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.” —Fiona Apple
  • “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers
  • “The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
  • “But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.” —George Eliot
  • “The more we do, the more we can do; the busier we are, the more leisure we have.” —William Hazlitt
  • “Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.” —Thomas Mann
  • “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
  • “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.” —Gail Sheehy
  • “The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.” —Shana Alexander
  • “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.” —Linda Hogan
  • “An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.” —Eric Hoffer
  • “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.” —Albert Einstein
  • “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
  • “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.
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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