Avoid Quotes
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I quickly get interested in people but just as quickly avoid them when they expect to be my only friends. I ams ure i hurt many people in that way.
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If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.
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In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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I try to avoid political ties.
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The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
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One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.
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All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
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One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
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If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.
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Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
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The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor's goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.
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When you’re constantly taking care of the emotions of others, you avoid having to face your own.
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.
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I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.
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Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.
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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
