PERSONALITY

Related Subjects: Character, Charm, Eccentricity, Individuality

1. Every individual represents both a unity of personality and the individual fashioning of that unity. The individual is thus both the picture and the artist. He is the artist of his own personality, but as an artist he is neither an infallible worker, nor a person with a complete understanding of soul and body—he is rather a weak, extremely fallible and imperfect human being.—ALFRED ADLER,
   Education of Children
   

2. Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just it.—KIPLING, Traffics & Discoveries
   

4. Put thyself into the trick of singularity.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
   

5. For more than a century poets have been bred on the romantic notion that the individual is capable of godlike perfection. This is poison food, and those who eat it die a lingering and pallid death. But before he dies the poet repeats the doctrine that has poisoned him. He feeds his audience on the gigantic fiction of a Free Personality.—GENEVIEVE TAGGARD
   

6. As I conceive it, liberalism is pre-eminently a type of mind, a kind of spirit and a sort of behavior, the basis of which is an enormous respect for personality. It is, therefore, above everything else, human and humane.—DOROTHY THOMPSON,
   Political Guide
   

7. It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguish'd collection, with aplomb—and not culture, or any knowledge or intellect whatever.—WALT WHITMAN, Democratic Vistas