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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

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Elihu Burritt

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

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Elmer G. Letterman

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

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Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

A man's character is his fate.

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Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

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Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

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Isabelle Eberhardt

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

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Japanese Proverb

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

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Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

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Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

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Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

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Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

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Nathaniel Emmons

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

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Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

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Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

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Alec Bourne

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

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Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

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Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Education is the best provision for old age.

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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

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B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

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Claiborne Pell (1918 - )

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

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Clive James

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

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Diogenes Laertius

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

Only the educated are free.

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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

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Gail Godwin

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Education has for its object the formation of character.

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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

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James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

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John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

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John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969)

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

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L. L. Henderson

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910

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