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Real Character
«Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
criterion, Real Character
«Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Character,
Reputation
| Keywords:
Real Character, real thing, reputation, shadow, The Real Thing, The Shadow, think of, Tree
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
| Keywords:
accepts, beauties, cruelties, cultures, custom, human culture, it accepts, overlap, overlapping, patiently, Real Character, reduced, sufferings, tradition, Two Cultures
«Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
achievements, distinguish, distinguished, jest, jesting, note, Real Character, sieges, small person, The Siege, vices
«Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
ball, ball over, ball up, hides, hiding, masked, masking, On The Ball, Real Character, reveals
«If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
bodies, characters, fictional, fictional character, for a while, heartbeat, heartbeats, practice, Real Character
«More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.»
«Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified»
«I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
active, alive, be active, deeply, define, felt, intensely, mental, moments, moral, moral character, particular, Real Character, Real Me, seek out, speaks, voice
«Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Individuality
| Keywords:
blinder, blinders, individuality, Real Character, recess, strata, stratum