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1. “Schwartz’s research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.”
Susan Cain
Personality Research, Schwartz, Genetics, Temperament, Free Will
2. “Maybe the mystery of what percent of personality is nature and what percent nurture is less important than the question of how your inborn temperament interacts with the environment and with your own free will. To what degree is temperament destiny?” Susan Cain Nature Versus Nurture, Personality Development, Temperament, Environment, Free Will
3. “The footprint of a high- or low-reactive temperament never disappeared in adulthood. We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizable part of who we are is ordained by our genes. We have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.” Susan Cain Temperament, Personality Development, Genetic Influence, Personal Growth, Free Will
5. “Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.” Michel de Montaigne Fortune, Free Will, Happiness, Human Nature, Responsibility
6. “Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness.” Michel de Montaigne Fortune, Free Will, Happiness, Soul, Personal Responsibility
29. “Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.” Simone Weil Intellect, Attention, Free Will, Philosophical Insight, Cognitive Processes, Moral Responsibility
Free Will Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “Schwartz’s research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.”
Susan Cain Personality Research, Schwartz, Genetics, Temperament, Free Will
2. “Maybe the mystery of what percent of personality is nature and what percent nurture is less important than the question of how your inborn temperament interacts with the environment and with your own free will. To what degree is temperament destiny?”
Susan Cain Nature Versus Nurture, Personality Development, Temperament, Environment, Free Will
3. “The footprint of a high- or low-reactive temperament never disappeared in adulthood. We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizable part of who we are is ordained by our genes. We have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.”
Susan Cain Temperament, Personality Development, Genetic Influence, Personal Growth, Free Will
5. “Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.”
Michel de Montaigne Fortune, Free Will, Happiness, Human Nature, Responsibility
6. “Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness.”
Michel de Montaigne Fortune, Free Will, Happiness, Soul, Personal Responsibility
29. “Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.”
Simone Weil Intellect, Attention, Free Will, Philosophical Insight, Cognitive Processes, Moral Responsibility
