Abhors Quotes

58 Abhors quotes by 55 unique authors

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature… — Georg Cantor
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. — Nikki Giovanni
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. — Terry Pratchett
Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche… — Andrea Dworkin
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that… — Ellen Key
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . .… — Thomas Jefferson
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration… — Frantz Fanon
The brain abhors discrepancies. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to. — Joe Chung
The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. — Baruch Spinoza
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel
As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months,… — Skip Prosser
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. — Eric Maisel
He, who can create, abhors destruction. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage. — Vanna Bonta
Nature abhors the old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity. — William Hazlitt
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson
Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and… — James Larkin
Nature abhors a vacuum. — Francois Rabelais
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election. — George Will
God abhors a naked singularity. — Stephen Hawking
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors. — Charles Spurgeon
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality… — Iain Pears

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