"At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox."

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Source : "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

William Poundstone

#Understanding Quotes #Able Quotes #Paradox Quotes

“I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.”
“In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.”
“If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”

Source : Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.39, tredition
“Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Don Lemon, www.cnn.com. January 24, 2013.
“Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from May 28, 2014
“We should be building great things that don't exist”

Source : "With I/O speech, Larry Page reminds us why Google rules tech" by Michael V. Copeland and Marcus Wohlsen, www.wired.com. May 16, 2013.
“The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.”
“To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.”

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