Inclined Quotes
391 quotes by 342 authors
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do…
— Aristotle
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving…
— Charles Babbage
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
— Henry Adams
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Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.
— Jimmy Carter
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Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask…
— Oswald Chambers
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose…
— B.F. Skinner
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the…
— Sun Tzu
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My daughter...why do you not tell me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know that this will…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be unmanned? There are…
— Michael Mullen
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We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action…
— Albert Einstein
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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
— Mark Twain
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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid…
— B.F. Skinner
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The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
— Jonathan Swift
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I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
— Charles Darwin
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