427 Quotes About Paradox

Give me an honest con man any day.

I never said most of the things I said.

Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here."I took a few steps into the room. There was so much I wanted to say. "I need you to be --" I said, and then I started to cry. "Be what?" she said, opening her arms. "Not sad," I said.

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter’s laboring pain, or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer; I merely know it’s true. I hurt them for that reason, and myself a little bit too.