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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. Nikola Tesla

Enlightenment, Evolution, Know, Results

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm

Love, Mother, Relationship, Mom, Child

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. Andy Rooney

Life, Long, Getting Old, Living, Old

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising. Christopher Walken

Doing, You, Kind, Know, Wonderful, About

The words of truth are always paradoxical. - Lao Tzu

The words of truth are always paradoxical. Lao Tzu

Truth, Words, Always

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race. Mikhail Gorbachev

Nature, Change, End, Problems, Race

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. George Eliot

Experience, Philosophy, Talk, Human

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen. Joanna Scott

Reality, Person, Hide, Way, Us, Show

I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life. Douglas Rushkoff

Life, Myself, Experience, Special, Find

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. Leo Buscaglia

Learning, Time, Parents, Connection

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. Tom Robbins

Reality, Contradictory

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Unity, Earth, Spirit, Mankind, Element

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand Russell

Education, Freedom, Intelligence, Become

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. Bertrand Russell

Simple, End, Start, Believe, Philosophy

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 J. Toynbee

Life, Reach, True, Important, Goal, Way

I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession. J. G. Ballard

Work, Mind, Free, Say, Obsession, Way

Power is paradoxical. Friedrich Durrenmatt

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical. Alison Gopnik

Children, Childhood, Parents, Start, Out

It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence. Eric Ries

Today, People, Start, Think, Small, Fast

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical. Richard P. Feynman

Today, Detail, Know, Sometimes, Studying

I have serious concerns about the potential risks of taking lots of fish oil capsules. So much fish oil can have paradoxical effects, reducing immune function in later life. Joel Fuhrman

Life, Risks, Fish, Potential, Serious

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Robert South

Mind, Things, Begins, Incomprehensible

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. Dorothy L. Sayers

Age, Youth, Believe, Look, Forward, Seem

As paradoxical as life would have it, some of these same persons who were beaten are terrorized by the Nazis are assisting the die-hards of the Citizens' Councils in bringing about economic pressure on Negroes who pay their poll taxes and register in Humphry County. Medgar Evers

Life, Pressure, Same, Taxes, Economic

I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding. Hugh Laurie

People, Think, Look, Place, Hide, Mean

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. Frank Miller

Women, Time, Democracy, People, Fall

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