Personality Psychology Quotes

Personality, too, is destiny.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it.

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.

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.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask.

Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.

Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.