Brain Quote by Daniel Goleman

I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed…

— Hannah Hurnard

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point, but it…

— Zoe McKey

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

— Susan Cain

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

— Honore de Balzac

“To a large degree, a particular collision of genes and temperament with a suboptimal or hostile environment may explain the development of borderline personality…

— Dolores Mosquera

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing…

— Carol S. Dweck

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain…

— Steven Pinker

No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number…

— Wole Soyinka

“The evidence from behavior genetics and twin studies indicating that 40 to 50 percent of the variance among people in temperament, personality, and many…

— Michael Shermer

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a…

— Anonymous