Docility

They may be deceived, and their Ignorance Symplicity, Ignorance, and Docility render them frequently liable to deception.

John Adams diary 16, 10 January 1771 - 28 [i.e. 27] November 1772 1961

Docility, on the other hand, is a rather ambiguous test of intelligence.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Docility of temper in male and female is indispensable.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

Docility and obedience would be demanded of him later, but not till the first agony had abated.

Piccadilly Jim 1928

Docility and subserviency are necessary in dealing with the conquering foreigner, but in such places and on such occasions when those qualities are not required, we get an impression of the real feelings of the Chinese.

Peking Dust Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917

Docility, as I have pointed out elsewhere, is one of the marks of genius.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

Docility, i.e., teachableness, let me point out once more, seems to be the necessary midwife of genius, without the aid of which it often labours in vain, or brings forth strange incongruous and misshapen births.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

Docility is, as we have seen, the deepest condition of reason's existence; for if a form of mental synthesis were by chance developed which was incapable of appropriating the data of sense, these data could not be remembered or introduced at all into a growing and cumulative experience.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

Docility was no element of Mrs. Silver's present mood, and Herbert's hopeful eyes became blank, as his gaze wandered from her head to the brown basket beside her.

Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907

Docility is the sovran help to perfection for Dürer and Reynolds, and more or less explicitly for all other great artists who have treated of these questions.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907