I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time.… — Rabbit Maranville Copy Share Image
Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why did Americans smile so often? Was it out of politeness or because of a gay disposition? Whatever it was, I for… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
