can anyone find a paradox in these two phrases?

Question

"Knowledge is important to learn, but too much knowledge will destroy a society"

"If you eat too much truth at once, you will die of the truth"

Answer 1

Neither statement qualifies as a paradox.

Answer 2

I don't think either one is a paradox, because both examples have qualifiers that resolve something that would otherwise be a paradox. Consider these two examples:

He was a quiet man that talked loudly.
He was a quiet man, but sometimes talked loudly.

The first is a paradox, the second is not.

Answer 3

par·a·dox [pérrə dòks]
(plural par·a·dox·es)
noun
1. something absurd or contradictory: a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory, but in fact is or may be true
2. self-contradictory statement: a statement or proposition that contradicts itself
3. person of opposites: somebody who has qualities that seem to contradict each other
4. something contrary to popular beliefs: something that is contrary to or conflicts with conventional or common opinion (archaic)

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Answer 4

/A paradox means contradictory. So the second phrase of each statement contradicts the first .

Answer 5

Since a paradox is a contradictory statement both statements are paradoxes.

Answer 6

I think they both say you can have too much of a good thing

Answer 7

You really CAN have too much of a "good thing"!!!