Disposition Quotes

• Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Compliment
  • Politeness
  • Benevolent

• The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Art
  • Science
  • Neighborhood

• Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

  

  William L. Shirer
  • Happiness
  • Difficult
  • Disposition

• The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Philosophical
  • Event

• That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

  

  Paul Schrader
  • Situation
  • Disposition
  • Come Up

• There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Meanness
  • Gentility

• Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Passion
  • Disposition
  • Temperance

• Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!

  

  Wilder Penfield
  • Beautiful
  • Everything
  • Loved

• Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Realizes

• Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Disposition

• One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Disposition

• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ends
  • Faults
  • Acquisition

• Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Littles
  • Generations
  • Add

• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

  

  Epictetus
  • Good
  • Essence
  • Disposition

• She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Man
  • Talents
  • Disposition

• Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Soul
  • Passion
  • Disposition

• By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Nature
  • Suppose
  • Disposition

• A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

  

  Joseph Lancaster
  • Education
  • System
  • Disposition

• Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.

  

  Charles Seymour Robinson
  • Spirit
  • Glory
  • Modest

• I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Knowledge
  • Friend
  • Disposition

• The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.

  

  Efim Geller
  • Player
  • Choice
  • Aim

• The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

  

  George Eliot
  • Truth
  • Colour
  • Disposition

• I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.

  

  Alexei Panshin
  • People
  • Feels
  • Facts

• The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

  

  Plato
  • Dogs
  • Opposite
  • Disposition

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