Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt,… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain,… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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