Quotes with paradox

Quotes 21 till 24 of 24.

• We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.

  The Conduct of Inquiry

  Abraham Kaplan
  American philosopher
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• Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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• You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
  

  Wayne Dyer
  American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conceptualization
• mispunctuates
• misunderstood
• guarantor
• converted
• sermonoid

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