Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
My own disposition is to trust the reader. Of course, there's a line between trusting the reader and expecting her to read your mind. That's where a friend or an editor comes in. A great editor will tell you straight when you've drifted into the latter territory.
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.
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
When disposition wins us, the features please.
Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only. Thus Tertullian observes, that the expression is unum , one thing, not one person; and he explains it to mean unity, likeness, conjunction, and of the love that the Father bore to the Son. Origen says, "let him consider that text, 'all that believed were of one heart and of one soul,' and then he will understand this, 'I and my Father are one.
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.
One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.
That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.
I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.