Top 224 Aversion Quotes & Sayings

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.

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

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.

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

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

There are plenty of reasons for disliking people, but this tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring.

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

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

Value investing is risk aversion.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

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

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis.

I wasn't into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It's an extended vacation, isn't it?

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

I love spicy food, so I'm not sure why I have this aversion to wasabi, but I really detest it.

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've always had an aversion to debt.

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

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

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

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

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

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

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

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

Two things in life I hate - one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.

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

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.

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.

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

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

Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'

Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.

I have an aversion to conformity.

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

In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

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

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

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

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

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

I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.