“Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.” FeelsCreativeGeniusTasteTemperamentCreative Power Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.” KnowsDifferentDifferencesTasteCapacityTemperamentDigestionDifferent Tastes Author:Ramakrishna
“The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.” HumansLittlesArtistFiguresTasteCreaturesMadPassionateTruthfulTemperamentRebelliousEccentricProfaneOutlandish Author:Eric Maisel
“It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.” MindBodyCareNaturalViewsDutyTasteSuitsTemperamentMind And BodyCowardlyExaggeratedUnwise Author:Ellen Swallow Richards
“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.” MatterCharacterDifferencesSeriousTheoryTasteConsequenceImportanceRegardFundamentalsMereConfusionEthicalPreferenceSubjectiveTemperament Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution.” MenHumansLittlesMotherStageEvolutionTastePreparedCoffeeDependentMidstTemperamentNursingHuman Evolution Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell
“There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. But there is a natural malignity that often discovers a vice in the midst of several virtues, in order to reveal and proclaim the discovery to all the world - a quality that is more the mark of a naturally evil temperament than a superior sense of discrimination. And it is truly an evil lot, to pass one's life always feeding off the imperfections of others.” WorldLifeDoeAbleOrderEvilNaturalPerfectQualityVirtueTasteDiscoveryAll ThingsPerfectionMarkVicesDiscriminationSuperiorsMidstImperfectionFeedingTemperamentGood Taste Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.” MeanStudyTvsBirthTasteWeaknessLaborChocolateAdsGenesTwinsDnaTemperamentIdenticalWovenSwagLabor DayPradaIdentical Twin Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.” HandsCoursesOpportunitySocialLevelsBrainPathSecurityComfortTasteBehaviorAmbitionUniqueEmpathyConstitutionCuriosityPatternsAbstractSeatsGenesThirstTemperamentNoveltyClicksAptitudeLeversWiring Author:Steven Pinker