Disposition Quotes

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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and… — Nicolas Steno
I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting… — David Brainerd
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter… — Mark Twain
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
Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament with proper dispositions,… — Louis of Granada
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to… — Walter E. Williams
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire… — Paul Bartsch
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling… — Aristotle
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so… — Thomas Jefferson
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. — Ambrose Bierce
By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition — Marilyn Monroe
You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when… — Charles Darwin
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement… — Mark Twain
Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent… — Sun Tzu
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which… — Aristotle
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,… — Josiah Johnson Hawes
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman.… — Unknown Author
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt… — Pope Pius XI
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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