Aversion Quotes

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Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

Value investing is risk aversion.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.