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Disposition Quotes

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.294, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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

Andrew Murray (2016). “Humility: The Beauty of Holiness”, p.38, Gideon House Books

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.269, Oxford University Press

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.275, Cengage Learning EMEA

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

"De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties". Book by Claude Adrien Helvétius, p. 286, 1758.

I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.

Charlie Munger's investment advice at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 3, 2003.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Found in Dubner's edition of his Fragments appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Græca, p. 102, line 101,

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”