59 Quotes About Preference

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs—as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.

Ingersoll could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell of superstition and in ignorance. He could not understand why people would not accept 'new truths with gladness.'He also knew, however, that once a person's mind had been poisoned with religious superstition, it was almost impossible to free it from the paralyzing fear which destroyed its ability to think.

We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.