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"It is not the position, but the disposition." »J. E. Dinger
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"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." »William Arthur Ward
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"Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these." »Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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"Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition." »Ignas Bernstein
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"Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation." »Charles De Gaulle
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"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker." »Plutarch
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"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." »Baruch Spinoza
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"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." »Plato
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"Whosoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous report is either himself of a radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense." »Menander
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"It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves." »Demosthenes
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"If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains." »William Penn
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"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George F. Will
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"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George Will
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"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity." »Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove." »Johnson
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"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." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." »Samuel Johnson
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