The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. — Arthur Seyss-Inquart Copy Share Image
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the… — James Alison Copy Share Image
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive… — Kevin Corrigan Copy Share Image
Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Firmly believe that the Lord is at all times everything to you. During prayer He is the power and the fulfillment in… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,… — Charlotte Brontë 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
I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
![“I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds a little shallow, but if I imagine the shadow life, where I didn't get that chance, and all the ways my negative inclinations would have bloomed if I hadn't gotten the attention, but also the…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82e/george-saunders-317_attention_i-really-wanted-to-be-allowed-to-the-wri_2675640.jpg)
