ISTJ quotes


A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. Arthur Schopenhauer A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. Arthur Schopenhauer A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. Arthur Schopenhauer After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Arthur Schopenhauer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. Arthur Schopenhauer Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. Arthur Schopenhauer Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthur Schopenhauer Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Arthur Schopenhauer Compassion is the basis of morality. Arthur Schopenhauer Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Arthur Schopenhauer Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. Arthur Schopenhauer If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. Arthur Schopenhauer In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. Arthur Schopenhauer In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. Arthur Schopenhauer It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. Arthur Schopenhauer It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. Arthur Schopenhauer It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. Arthur Schopenhauer It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. Arthur Schopenhauer Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. Arthur Schopenhauer Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Arthur Schopenhauer Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. Arthur Schopenhauer Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Arthur Schopenhauer Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. Arthur Schopenhauer Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. Arthur Schopenhauer Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Arthur Schopenhauer The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. Arthur Schopenhauer The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. Arthur Schopenhauer The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Arthur Schopenhauer The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. Arthur Schopenhauer The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. Arthur Schopenhauer The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Arthur Schopenhauer The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. Arthur Schopenhauer There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Arthur Schopenhauer They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. Arthur Schopenhauer To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. Arthur Schopenhauer To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. Arthur Schopenhauer Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. Arthur Schopenhauer We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. Arthur Schopenhauer Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. Arthur Schopenhauer With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Arthur Schopenhauer

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John Locke: INTP

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. John Locke

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke

All wealth is the product of labor. John Locke

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. John Locke

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. John Locke

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. John Locke

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. John Locke

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. John Locke

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. John Locke

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do muchwhat as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly. John Locke

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. John Locke

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common. John Locke

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John Locke

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. John Locke

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. John Locke

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. John Locke

The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. John Locke

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. John Locke

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education. John Locke

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. John Locke

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. John Locke

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. John Locke

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke

Where there is no property there is no injustice. John Locke

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More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. Jeff Greenfield

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans. Jeff Greenfield

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. Jeff Greenfield