Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it."
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Traits
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged"
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?"
Pascal Boyer
Anthropologist
"A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith."
Julian Young
Philosopher
"The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits."
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