Paradox Quotes

"All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility."

"Away then with wisdom and knowledge, and great robbers will disappear!"

"The words of truth are always paradoxical."

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."

Robert M. Pirsig

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

Niels Bohr

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

Samuel Johnson

“Great straightness seems crooked; great skill seems clumsy; great eloquence seems stammering.”

“The great square has no corners; the great vessel is slow to be completed; the great sound is faint.”

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”

“One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.”

“Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?”

“He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.”

“In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.”

“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

G. K. Chesterton