Aversion Quotes

149 quotes by 128 authors

Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the… — Adolf Hitler
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of… — Marcus Aurelius
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal… — Gerard De Nerval
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in… — Albert Einstein
I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it. — Kristen Stewart
Value investing is risk aversion. — Seth Klarman
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. — Frank Popoff
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come… — Epicurus
There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because… — Louise Thaden
There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes… — Carroll Quigley
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are… — Thomas Hobbes
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. — Daniel Kahneman
Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been… — Alice Munro
So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and… — James Cameron
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of… — Ambrose Bierce
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as… — Blaise Pascal
Some things are up to us [eph' hÃªmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses,… — Epictetus
Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those… — Pema Chodron

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