Prone
Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.
Headlong; running downward or headlong.
Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
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Prone Quotations
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander Pope
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Rene Descartes
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Eric Hoffer
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Thomas Fuller
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
John Legend
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
Herman Kahn
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
Arthur Erickson
Prone Translations
prone in Spanish is prono, propenso
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