Personality

“What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it.”

“We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking. … But at the turn of the (20th) century, when we moved into this culture of personality, suddenly what was admired was to be magnetic and charismatic.”

“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality … is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.”

“Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe.”

“Methods are transient: personality is enduring.”

“For the adult, all the world is a stage and the personality is the mask one wears to play the assigned role.”

“Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.”

“A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.”

“I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. … We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.”

“Personality is the supreme value, and should be regarded as an end and not merely as a means to an end.”

“Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.”

“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”