Community Quote by Albert Einstein

“The idea of “the free development of personality” seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act out of…

— Susan Cain

“At the onset of the Culture of Personality, we were urged to develop an extroverted personality for frankly selfish reasons—as a way of outshining…

— Susan Cain

The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.

— Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

— Peter Drucker

“Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those…

— Hermann Hesse

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying…

— Carl Jung

Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within…

— Lillian B. Rubin

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

— Mos Def

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

— Simone Weil

“We simply haven’t advanced to that stage of thinking—a stage where you see that the inner development of each person is intrinsically connected to…

— Hanzi Freinacht

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

— Ralph Nader