T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.”
“The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.”
“The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.”
“The paradox of life; those who go out chasing after money eventually lose their future for a piece of bread; but those that are obsessed with their life's purpose gain the future and fulfill their call”
“The paradox of love is that its ultimate end is its opposite — hate. The paradox of hate is that its ultimate end is its opposite — love. Make deep hate inhabit any woman’s heart, and she can love one day. Make deep love inhabit any woman’s heart, and she can kill you one day.”
“The paradox of love is that the poor believe that money can be helpful in many cases but not in love, for which women need only your heart and soul. However, in fact, more attractive and intelligent women give their heart and soul to the rich. The money makes a gentleman and a handsome man in the women's eyes, with whom women can easily fall in love forever.”
“The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.”
Source: Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
“The Paradox of Love. When we share love, love multiplies.”
“The paradox of privacy is that the more I seek to protect it, the more I reveal about my need for it.”
“The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.”
“The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.”
Source: Race Matters
“The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal of books that a good reader engages in - a reader who knows that every book is the bearer of part of himself and can give him access to it, if only he has the wisdom not to end his journey there.”
Source: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
“The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”
Source: Talking woman
“The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind; rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.”
Source: Pictures and conversations
“The paradox of short-term thinking is that it often ends up being more damaging and more expensive than longer-term thinking.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.”
“The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.”
“The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.”
“The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.”
“The paradox of the Eurasian Union is that its primary goal is not Eurasia. Its most desired object is Ukraine.”
“The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.”
“The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.”
Source: Adventures of a Bystander
“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.”
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil. She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The paradox of wokeism is that, in its quest for inclusivity, it often becomes exclusionary, shutting down conversations deemed uncomfortable or offensive. This narrowing of acceptable discourse harms the essence of free speech, as it places arbitrary boundaries on what can be said or joked about. Comedy, in particular, serves as a barometer for societal norms and challenges our preconceptions. Suppressing comedic expression not only hampers artistic freedom but also stifles the very laughter that can bridge divides and foster understanding.”
“The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.”
Source: Spillville: A Collaboration
“The paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.”
Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.”
Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings
“The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
Source: The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
“The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.”
“The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.”
“The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.”
“The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.”
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations
“The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.”
“The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.”
“The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.”
“The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.”
“The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.”
“The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.”
“The paralysis of analysis might stop you from creating new records.”
“The paralysis of being unable to make a decision can be warded off by employing a simple process over and over again. It becomes easier, almost instinctive with repeated use of the formula.”
Source: What If? Your Guide to Making the Best Decisions Ever
“The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.”
“The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would look like in the future. So I think it's important for writers and artists to try to imagine that.”