It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. — Plautus Copy Share Image
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when there is no end… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had.” — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The charter school is a possibility, an alternative in certain circumstances, but not in most, and not in most places, and not… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse… — Ovid Copy Share Image
In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide. — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity,… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough. — John Powell Copy Share Image
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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