Aversion Quote by Joseph Addison Download Open image “Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.” — Joseph Addison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aversion Facts Figures Hope Inspirational
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope. — Mike Caro Copy Share Image
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. — Charles D. Broad Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics,… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
