Human Character Quotes

45 Human Character quotes by 43 unique authors

Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the… — Philip Jose Farmer
Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character. — Shoghi Effendi
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human… — Matthew Simpson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that… — Jon Wynne-Tyson
The worth of a personâ€™s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this… — Unknown Author
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing.… — Sada Thompson
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. — Robert Henri
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character. — Theodore Roosevelt
Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. — Saul Bellow
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of… — Leon Trotsky
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… — Philip Roth
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man… — Agatha Christie
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character… — Lin Yutang
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut
These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we… — Stevie Smith
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,… — Anthony Burgess
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons. — Tennessee Williams
Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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