“It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.” VoiceTheoryPersonalityShapesSurroundings Author:K. D. Lang
“The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.” PeopleShouldFirstsHas BeensMadeMatterReasonSocialSupportPsychologyTheoryPersonalityEvidenceShould HaveMythTraitsShould Have BeenPsychiatristClinicians Author:Naomi Weisstein
“Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.” PeopleThinkingReasonCareBeautifulSimpleInterestingTheoryPersonalityEvolutionRosePlantDon't CareI Don't CareSurroundingsAdaptedIllustrationVery BeautifulTheory Of EvolutionCactusPlant LifeInteresting Personalities Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.” ChildrenProblemSeemsGrowsParentCommunityGrowing UpEnvironmentMovementEmotionalTheoryPersonalityEvidenceAdultsSalvationIsraelCaringSavedDisasterReasonableFoundersPsychoanalytic Author:Sandra Scarr
“Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.” MindHumansArtWholeShowsTogetherFormLawValuesProcessGrowthMoralTheoryPersonalityActivityElementsIntuitionResistanceEngagedOrganismsSanctityHuman ActivityInsistenceLiving OrganismsHuman PersonalityAdditives Book:Selected Writings Source: Selected Writings
“In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.” SoulThreeSpeakDangerousObjectsTheoryPersonalitySensesRationalRealmsFacultyRepublicAmbitiousPlato Author:Thomas McEvilley
“My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.” UsedTheoryPersonalityOnline Author:Charlie Brooker
“All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.” ThinkingWorldMadeEnoughSpiritUniverseTheoryHairPersonalityEternalSurvivalEvidenceRegardAtheistAppearanceRadicalCosmicAgnosticUnlikelySpirit WorldUnjustifiedMoonshinePending Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories