Symptom Quotes

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. (Edward Gibbon)
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. View quote
Edith Wharton
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. View quote
Victor Hugo
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
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 a child for his symptom. View quote
Erik Erikson
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy. View quote
Alfred Hermann Fried
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 evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. View quote
Ayn Rand
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. View quote
John Steinbeck
A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring. View quote
Fernando Flores
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly-hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. (Joan Rivers)
Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran. View quote
Azar Nafisi
It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged”, a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct-never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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. View quote
George Orwell
Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. View quote
Thomas More
Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses. View quote
Samael Aun Weor
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable. View quote
Murray Leinster
The concept of God held by the Jews is less a cause than a symptom of their manner of comprehending and representing things. View quote
Erich Auerbach
It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly. (Theodore L. Cuyler)
The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. View quote
Albert Einstein
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. View quote
Vincent Massey
English: Only a total idiot would think that a major channel is working to inform the audience. The channel sells product, it must be packaged. CNN, for example, is a colossal ideological tool in the West. An excellent example is the situation around Yugoslavia. How effectively a very civilized part of humankind was brainwashed! The question is in approaches. If a consumer "grubs" stale bread, nobody will offer him poppy-seed buns. I'm an absolutely engaged person. By myself. I have certain political views. I'm not a journalist. I practice political propaganda. I am a commentator, and if one comments on events without having one's own position, that's an unhealthy symptom. View quote
Mikhail Leontyev
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 true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. View quote
Helen Fisher