Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Becoming people of integrity and honesty does not occur quickly or all at once, nor is it merely a matter of greater… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
![“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.jpg)
