I have an aversion to conformity.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

— David Hume

“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an…

— Robert Musil

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this…

— Charlotte Bronte

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we…

— Martha Beck

Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics,…

— John Fogerty

Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success,…

— Frederick Lenz

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that…

— Michael Arrington

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

— Karl Kraus

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being…

— Iyanla Vanzant

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

Value investing is risk aversion.

— Seth Klarman

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

— Douglas B. Reeves

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't

— Penny Kome

In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to…

— Frederick Lenz