It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality.
To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
A small pot boils quick. You can tell much about the depth of one's character by how quickly he 'boils'.
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.
I don't think I'm that boring.
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
Even people who vote on the issues are moved by temperament, moved by style, moved by an assessment of “what kind of person if this?”
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.
To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.
Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.
And increasingly, as people live online, we are used to making really snap judgments about somebody's character based on their Facebook page or the way their blog feels or look.
