"Docility is the observable half of reason." — George Santayana

More Docility Quotes

This quote is filed under Docility Quotes, one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained.… — Benjamin Franklin
• The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the… — Pope Leo XIII
• The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that… — Teresa of Avila
• Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically ,… — Ayn Rand
• In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life.… — James Henry Hammond
• The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility.… — H. L. Mencken
• Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. — John Calvin
• It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at… — M.F.K. Fisher
• Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations… — Carl Sagan
• A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character. — Henry Hazlitt

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