Paradox Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old paradox quotes, paradox sayings, and paradox proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. Benjamin Franklin
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. Gail Sheehy
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
If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will Tom Robbins
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
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
You are never too old to become younger! Mae West
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. Carl Rogers
Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all. Thomas Mann
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. Kedar Joshi
I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot. Chris Rock
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde
The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age. Lailah Gifty Akita
It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy. Piero Scaruffi
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. Albert Einstein
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. Linda Hogan
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Frank Herbert
Humans cannot create what Nature can create and Nature cannot create what Humans can create. Joey Lawsin
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
After clarifying where things are, ask where are we going? Don't hang onto the past unless you're heading backwards. Randall Huntsberry
Listen carefully to the paradoxes of life. Find a way to embrace both horns of the dilemma. Randall Huntsberry
The paradoxes of work and productivity mean that most of us have less time available to use for our own ends. People are working longer and longer hours, often without seeing any real rise in their standard of living. Charles Handy
The whole concept of justice depends on equity and fairness for all, and yet it is easy to look at the world around us and see how clearly injustices remain. Charles Handy
The paradox is the authentic pathos of the intellectual life, and just as only great souls are susceptible to passions, so are only great thinkers susceptible to what I call Sparadoxes, which are nothing other than grandiose thoughts, not yet fully developed. Soren Kierkegaard
But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. Soren Kierkegaard
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. Soren Kierkegaard
Faith itself is a wonder, and everything that is true of the paradox is also true of faith. Soren Kierkegaard
The eternal truth has come into existence in time. That is the paradox Soren Kierkegaard
To yield is to be preserved whole. / To be bent is to become straight. / To be empty is to be full. / To be worn out is to be renewed. / To have little is to possess. Laozi