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Paradoxical Quotes
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
True
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Opening
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New
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Know
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Evolution
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Say
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu
Truth
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Words
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Always
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
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Long
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Everyone
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Living
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Long Life
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
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Time
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Parents
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Play
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Seeing
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
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Pressure
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Some
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Pay
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Economic
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Who
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
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Freedom
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Intelligence
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Become
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
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Change
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Problems
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End
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Race
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Our
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
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Hide
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Person
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Way
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Us
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Show
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
Clive Barker
Good
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Dreams
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Good Health
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Health
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Great
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
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Believe
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Start
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End
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Philosophy
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
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Mother
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Relationship
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Mom
,
Child
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
Edward Norton
People
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Fun
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Shades
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Hard
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Like
,
Because
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
You
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Doing
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Know
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Kind
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Wonderful
,
About
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
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Small
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People
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Think
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Start
,
Want
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
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Earth
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Spirit
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Mankind
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Necessary
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
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Looks
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Detail
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Sometimes
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Know
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.
James Gleick
Surprise
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Think
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You
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New
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Information
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot
Experience
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Philosophy
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Talk
,
Human
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
Tom Robbins
Reality
,
Contradictory
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.
Jerry Saltz
Waves
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Understanding
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Sometimes
,
Own
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
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Time
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People
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Democracy
,
Fall
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
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Look
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Youth
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Believe
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Forward
,
May
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
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Parents
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Childhood
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Start
,
Out
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South
Mind
,
Things
,
Begins
,
Incomprehensible
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
,
Look
,
Think
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Hide
,
Place
,
Actor
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
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True
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Important
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Way
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Reach
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Goal
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