Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

There's more to a person than whether or not they like dogs.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

Personality, too, is destiny.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

I think I have a great temperament.