Docility is the observable half of reason.

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

— Jeff Ament

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

— Jerry Stahl

Cyrus was observed to have more docility than any of his years and to show more submission to those of an advanced age than…

— Xenophon

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

— Timothy Leary

“And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not…

— Gary Shteyngart

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

— Henry Hazlitt

“In addition to selecting for infantile physical features in many of our pet breeds, we have carefully cultivated an infant-like dependency in many of…

— Charles Danten

“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state, utter ruin.…

— Anonymous

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

— John Calvin

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term.…

— Carl Sagan

In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

— Rhoda Janzen

If you want to edit your photos and make yourself look different, go for it. That is up to you, but in my opinion,…

— Peyton List

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;…

— Eric Hoffer

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

— David Ricardo