25 Paradoxical Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Become Sense Our Say Evolution Paradoxical More Only Absolute Results Through True Prospects New Opening Know Most Greater Limitations Continuous Intellectual Up Precisely Ignorant Gratifying Conscious Enlightenment

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

The words of truth are always paradoxical. Lao Tzu

Truth Words Paradoxical Always

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 Thought Become Paradoxical Faced Fact Obstacles Chief

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 Problems International Relations Other Other Countries Relations Our Paradoxical Would Solve Only Could Put Countries Particularly Arms Arms Race Ideological Been End Iron Iron Curtain Curtain Race Confrontation Them Rid International Therefore Cooperate Cooperating Needed

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

Parents Young Babies Out Paradoxical Mysterious Part Puzzling Since How Childhood Human Children Young Children Even Fundamental Lives Start

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. Audrey Tautou

Paradoxical Seem Someone Given Likes Limelight Might Who Profession

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 Backward Paradoxical Must Seem Look May Forward

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 Easily Characters All People Paradoxical Shades No-One Like Because Ambiguity Contradictory Impulses Hard Who Fun

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

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

Experience Philosophy Paradoxical Phrases Talk Current Human Human Experience Means Even

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 Hide Think Other Definition Hiding Paradoxical Look Course Became Because Sounds Encouraging Up Maybe Conventional Place Public Mean Them Standing Standing Up Reasons Even Actor Actually

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 Frame Way Say All My Work Paradoxical Would Deliberately Rely Obsession Obsessions Leaves Subject Up Quite Set

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

Sometimes Understanding Own Others Took Waves Out Paradoxical Perceptual Crucial Idea Pictures Existence Irony Artists Where Staged Places Them Cut Then Created Separately Viewer Original Filled Copied Image Images

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world? Jonathan Safran Foer

Relationship Animal Cooking Book World Hero Animals Few Illustration Every Recipes Local Our Bookstore Section Paradoxical About More Only Feet Just Children Then Cookbook Illuminating Away

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching the market. Mark Walport

Market Innovative Paradoxical Seems Advances Reaching Make Scientists Discovering Huge Diseases Fewer Common Mechanisms Medical

It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed. Martin Rees

Nature Wish Energy Paradoxical Detail Fuzzy Seem Higher Smallest Study Sharper Accelerator Instruments Scientific Very Probe Order Bigger Biggest Might Required Inherently Things Needed

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

People Unity Earth Synthesis Paradoxical Spirit Individuals Mankind Whole Element Multitude Utopian Necessary Biologically

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness. Stanislav Grof

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Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny. Meghan O'Rourke

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