Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families. — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi 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
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief.… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from… — Adam Smith 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
Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice… — Marcus Aurelius 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
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson 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
He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then,… — Plato Copy Share Image
However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image