Top 17 Adventitious Quotes
#1. ADVENTITIOUS (ADVENTI'TIOUS) adj.[adventitius, Lat.]That which advenes; accidental; supervenient; extrinsically added, not essentially inherent.
Samuel Johnson
#2. Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today.
Carl Sagan
#3. It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Thomas Hardy
#4. A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#5. The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
Gautama Buddha
#6. The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
Thomas Clarkson
#8. If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand.
Ralph Cudworth
#9. Human spoken language seems to be
adventitious. The exploitation of organ systems with other functions for communication in humans is also indicative of the comparatively recent evolution of our linguistic abilities.
Carl Sagan
#11. Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?
Miles Anthony Smith
#13. I visited blathernodes, soaked myself in other people's opinions.
Peter Watts
#14. Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.
Stephen Dunn
#15. But he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and died years ago.The leftover pieces had petrified in his chest, leaving stone shrapnel in a black, empty place that felt nothing.Just a yawning void of nothing.And he liked it that way ...
Charlotte Featherstone
#16. If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.
Coretta Scott King
#17. For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.
Ray Stevenson
