Quotes About Paradox

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

My experience is the opposite.

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

Faith is believing things you know aint true