Disposition Quotes - Page 17

• Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

  Marvin Minsky

  Simple, Ideas, Common Sense

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Habit, Mankind

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• 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, Choices, Style

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• It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

  Paulo Freire

  Becoming, Imagine, Victim

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Appreciation, Heart, Mean

  "Sketches and Travels in London: To which are Added Novels by Eminent Hands, and Character Sketches".

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• A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Men, Black

  'The Spectator' no. 1, 1 March 1711

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• More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Kindness, Appreciate

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• Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

  Seth Godin

  Attitude, Inspirational Life, Artist

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• It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Political, Made

  Thomas Jefferson (1943). “Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction”

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• The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Ideas, World, Emergencies

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The best part of health is fine disposition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Fine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Gratitude, Men, Perfection

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• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Grateful, Iron

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• A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Gratitude, Men, Feelings

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• For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.

  John Tillotson

  Spiritual, Blessing, Preparation

  John Tillotson (1685). “A Discourse Against Transubstantiation”, p.30

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• One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Alternatives, Elements, Eras

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.27, Random House

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• Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Democracy, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.281, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Justice, Remembrance, Speech

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Childhood, Individual, Courses

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.82, Psychology Press

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• A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Genuine, Invincible, Ifs

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.117, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Believe, Evil

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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• 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

  Men, Understanding, Mind

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.175, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

  Jane Austen

  Dwelling, Evil, Anxiety

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.236, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Motherhood, Matter

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 8), 1928.

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