John Stuart Mill Quotes

I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Men are born, and then they're formed.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.