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Da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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Library of Personality Development: Quotations

"Minds are of three kinds:  one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless." ~ The Prince, Daniel Donno translation, Bantam, 1966, 1981 p. 80

"...there is a good side and a bad side to most people, and in accordance with your own character and disposition you will bring out one of them and the other will remain a sealed book to you." ~ Mark Twain - unpublished Autobiographical Dictation, reprinted in Notebooks & Journals, Vol. 3.

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." ~ Albert Einstein

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." ~ Tolstoy

"The Doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.'" ~ Jerry Lewis

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." ~ Erich Fromm, Man for Himself (1947)

"It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You have to know each guy and adjust to the personality of each one of the guys." ~ Dave Brubeck

"There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away." ~ Agatha Christie via Hercule Poirot