1.
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
Baron de Montesquieu
2.
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
3.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
Leon Kass
4.
Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
Andrew Murray
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
George Eliot
6.
All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.
Lilian Katz
7.
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
Saint Augustine
8.
You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.
Greg Graffin
9.
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
Emmet Fox
10.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
11.
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
Andrew Carnegie
12.
The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
Orison Swett Marden
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The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
Carl Jung
14.
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
Jane Austen
16.
Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
William Shakespeare
17.
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
Seneca the Younger
18.
If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.
Sun Tzu
19.
I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.
Charlie Munger
20.
Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.
George S. Patton
22.
In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.
Sun Tzu
23.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
Jane Austen
24.
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
Menander
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Samuel Richardson
26.
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
27.
General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.
Edward Everett
28.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Edward Gibbon
29.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
Tacitus
30.
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
Ovid
31.
Nothing is more praiseworthy,
nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
32.
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
33.
Our actions determine our dispositions.
Aristotle
34.
Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
John C. Maxwell
35.
For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.
Isaac Newton
36.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
Plautus
37.
I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.
Mehmet Oz
38.
When disposition wins us, the features please.
Ovid
39.
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
George Eliot
41.
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.
Josh Billings
42.
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
Os Guinness
43.
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
Eleanor Catton
44.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Horace
46.
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
L. Tom Perry
47.
By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition
Marilyn Monroe
49.
Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg
50.
That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.
Paul Schrader