Aversion Quotes

149 quotes by 128 authors

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional… — Walter Benjamin
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. — Emile M. Cioran
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. — Hillary Clinton
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and… — John Dewey
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As… — Eckhart Tolle
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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 aversion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events. — George Santayana
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. — Joseph Addison
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. — George Washington
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of… — Karl Popper
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be… — P D Ouspensky
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from… — Al-Ghazali
I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He… — Sogyal Rinpoche
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be… — Seth Klarman
We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or… — John Keats

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