I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
~ Plato
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
~ Erich Fromm
Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.
~ Michio Kaku
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
~ Romola Garai
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
~ Paul Valéry
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
~ John Ruskin
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
~ Denis Villeneuve
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
~ Earl Warren
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
~ James A. Baldwin
