Top 17 David Keirsey Quotes
#2. I must go down to the seas again
to find where I
buried the hatchet with Yesterday.
Janet Frame
#3. Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.
David Keirsey
#5. Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
David Keirsey
#6. Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.
Austan Goolsbee
#7. I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
Daniel Goleman
#8. When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
Zhuangzi
#9. I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#10. Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".
Philip Kitcher
#12. I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
Charlotte Bronte
#13. Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
George Herbert
#14. Whether at home or at work, ISTJs are nothing if not reliable, particularly when it comes to inspecting the people and things in their jurisdiction-quietly seeing to it that uniform quality of product is maintained, and that those around them uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct.
David Keirsey
#15. This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night'€s State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.
John Podhoretz
#16. Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?
Caroline Knapp
#17. And at the end of the first twelvemonth had arrived at the conclusion, from which he never afterwards departed, that all the fancies of the poets, and lessons of the sages, were a mere collection of words and grammar, and had no other meaning in the world.
Charles Dickens