Temperaments Quotes
39 quotes by 35 authors
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty…
— Sri Aurobindo
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives…
— Peter Medawar
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The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available…
— William Wilson
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An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you…
— Carl Lewis
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A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.
— Timothy Keller
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In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
— Artur Rodzinski
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Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
— Joyce Brothers
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Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined…
— Jane Brody
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Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’;…
— Janet Malcolm
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Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence.…
— Carl Jung
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Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the…
— David Keirsey
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious…
— Paul Cezanne
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Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored…
— Ari Kiev
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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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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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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.
— Ramakrishna
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Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
— William James
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