Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories, or, as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases, and the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
Character Quotes
Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world.
It’s easier to see another person’s deceit than your own. But when self deception goes unchecked and rationalized, it tarnishes the character.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. We can only see what we are, and if we misbehave we suspect others.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
You, my lord, are a judge; I am the supposed culprit. I am a man; you are a man also. By a revolution of power we might change places, though we could never change characters.
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
In my opinion the best character is generally that which is least talked about.
