Best Temperament Thoughts
306 Temperament quotes by 245 unique authors
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The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought…
— Mark Twain
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Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.
— Louis Kronenberger
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It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The…
— Gore Vidal
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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but…
— Sigmund Freud
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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 things to be…
— Shilpa Shetty
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Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.
— Neil Peart
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Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of…
— Jeremy Renner
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There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for…
— Frederick Lenz
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I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
— Susan Cain
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It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice…
— William E. Gladstone
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The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia…
— Peter D. Kramer
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I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to…
— Anthony Kennedy
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Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
— Sydney J. Harris
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If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.
— Laurence Olivier
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
— Robertson Davies
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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