Avidity Quotes

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. (David Hume)
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity? View quote
Richard Eberhart
To think is to run after insecurity, to be demoralized for grandiose trifles, to immure oneself in abstractions with a martyr's avidity, to hunt up complications the way others pursue collapse or gain. The thinker is by definition keen for torment. View quote
Emil Cioran
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. View quote
David Hume
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
Microscopic organisms may have troublesome and destructive effects, but in themselves they can be be studied with interest and avidity. View quote
Oliver Lodge
The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities. View quote
Emil Theodor Kocher
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . . View quote
Oscar Wilde
When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with reflection to the glory of God, remembering the God Who feeds us, and above all His incorruptible food, His Body and Blood, that out of love He has given Himself to us in food and drink, remembering also the holy word of the Gospel. View quote
John of Kronstadt