.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football.… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just… — Aline Brosh McKenna Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
