Disposition Quotes · Page 9

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen…

— John Dewey

Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave…

— Ryan Holmes

Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

— Samuel Johnson

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a…

— Hippocrates

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

— Eleanor Catton

I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one…

— Alice Hoffman

Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise…

— John Woolman

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

— Anonymous

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with…

— Susan Cain

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor…

— Mark Twain

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition,…

— Helen Rowland

(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage…

— Dalai Lama

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

— Augustus Hopkins Strong

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy…

— Sun Tzu

Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only…

— John of Kronstadt

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

— Tacitus

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but…

— Symeon the New Theologian

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made…

— William Hazlitt

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

— Alphonsus Liguori

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual…

— Aristotle

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary…

— Plutarch