Personality Quotes
2694 quotes by 1922 authors
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot…
— John Taylor Gatto
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have…
— Rajneesh
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The society wants you to have beautiful personalities; the society wants you to have personalities which are comfortable for the society, convenient for the society.…
— Rajneesh
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The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world.…
— Mother Angelica
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.
— Maria Montessori
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There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
— Arthur Miller
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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
— H. L. Mencken
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The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and…
— H. L. Mencken
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with…
— Vladimir Lenin
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God, or a source of divinity, put together a map for our lives. That map includes opportunities-not outcomes-but opportunities. And those opportunities are contracts [or]…
— Caroline Myss
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Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with wonder at this…
— Pope John Paul II
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Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required…
— M. Scott Peck
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A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is…
— Claude Bernard
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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which…
— Simone Weil
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Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;…
— Karl Popper
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Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
— John Galliano
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