Personality Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. — Maria Montessori
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. — Arthur Miller
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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