Symptom Quotes

160 Symptom quotes by 142 unique authors

Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a… — Laura Schlessinger
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family… — Lauren Mackler
Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating… — Gary Zukav
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. — Edward Gibbon
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising.… — Tom Colicchio
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake… — Erik Erikson
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. — Robert A. Heinlein
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. — Victor Hugo
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar… — Ayelet Waldman
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's… — Helen Fisher
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. — George Orwell
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. — John Steinbeck
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. — Roland Barthes
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the… — David Foster Wallace
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill… — Jodi Picoult
The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper. — Virginia Satir
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who… — Ayn Rand
I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand,… — Louise Erdrich

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