Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions. — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
