Avidity Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

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
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
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
Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees. — Czeslaw Milosz
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
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. — Ivan Turgenev
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
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
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
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. — David Hume
The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities. — Emil Theodor Kocher
Forgotten children, conform a new faith, Avidity and lust controlled by hate. — Slayer

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