Avidity Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of…
— Anthony Storr
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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well…
— James Madison
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An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
— Thomas Paine
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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with reflection to the…
— John of Kronstadt
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
— Ivan Turgenev
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
— David Hume
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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
— David Hume
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The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.
— Emil Theodor Kocher
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Forgotten children, conform a new faith, Avidity and lust controlled by hate.
— Slayer
Who Wrote These Avidity Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Avidity Quotes as follows: