Behinds Quote by John Burroughs

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

— Seamus Heaney

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

— Honore de Balzac

The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of…

— Erich Fromm

There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

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

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

“Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of 'character;' and those of 'temperament.' Your character traits stem from your experiences.…

— Helen Fisher

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

— Nancy Gibbs

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

— Charles Francis Adams Jr

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily…

— Daniel Goleman