Antidote Quotes

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. (Aristotle)
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. View quote
Adam Smith
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. View quote
Erwin Rommel
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy! View quote
Emil Cioran
There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote. View quote
Bertrand Russell
O, she is the antidote to desire. View quote
William Congreve
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only antidote. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
I'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me: This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. View quote
Joseph Addison
The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading. (Ronald Fisher)
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound. View quote
Erica Jong
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. View quote
Emo Philips
The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words. View quote
Camille Paglia
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error-a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism. View quote
David Brin
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error. View quote
David Brin
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. View quote
George Steiner
The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. (Edward Abbey)
The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty. View quote
David Levithan
I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering. View quote
Edward Hallowell
Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward. View quote
T.D. Jakes
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. View quote
Ernst Fischer